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Page 40
It does not necessarily imply that no woman has power , or that all women in a
given culture may not have certain ... Where women and men alike share a
particular cultural phenomenon , it implies quite different things according to
gender .
It does not necessarily imply that no woman has power , or that all women in a
given culture may not have certain ... Where women and men alike share a
particular cultural phenomenon , it implies quite different things according to
gender .
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... as heathen , retarded , or infantile versions of Western culture , but for their own
values , it began to be possible to imagine that the patriarchal , patrilineal family
of Western culture was neither as essential nor as inevitable as it had seemed .
... as heathen , retarded , or infantile versions of Western culture , but for their own
values , it began to be possible to imagine that the patriarchal , patrilineal family
of Western culture was neither as essential nor as inevitable as it had seemed .
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Unfortunately , this triad depends on a too - familiar dualism , between man /
culture / consciousness , and woman / nature / unconsciousness . As a woman
thinking , I experience no such division in my own being between nature and
culture ...
Unfortunately , this triad depends on a too - familiar dualism , between man /
culture / consciousness , and woman / nature / unconsciousness . As a woman
thinking , I experience no such division in my own being between nature and
culture ...
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Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution |
| Author | Adrienne Cecile Rich |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Bantam Books, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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