Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 104
... death , death by reincarnation ; that tides ebb and flow , winter alternates with sum- mer , the full moon with the dark of the moon ) is to acknowledge that process and continuity embrace both positive and negative events - although ...
... death , death by reincarnation ; that tides ebb and flow , winter alternates with sum- mer , the full moon with the dark of the moon ) is to acknowledge that process and continuity embrace both positive and negative events - although ...
Page 146
... death a metastasis formed in one eye . Still animated by my visit to the Venetian treasure houses , still much agi- tated by the report of Kolletschka's death , there was forced on my mind with irresistible clarity in this excited state ...
... death a metastasis formed in one eye . Still animated by my visit to the Venetian treasure houses , still much agi- tated by the report of Kolletschka's death , there was forced on my mind with irresistible clarity in this excited state ...
Page 161
... death- fantasies had a literal , unassailable basis in statistical fact . Yet , even in a place and time where maternal mortality is low , a woman's fantasies of her own death in childbirth have the accuracy of metaphor . Typi- cally ...
... death- fantasies had a literal , unassailable basis in statistical fact . Yet , even in a place and time where maternal mortality is low , a woman's fantasies of her own death in childbirth have the accuracy of metaphor . Typi- cally ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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