Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page xiv
... early childhood rarely remember them for their patient attendance when we were ill , their doing the humble tasks of feeding and clean- ing us ; we remember scenes , expeditions , punishments , special occasions . For most of us a woman ...
... early childhood rarely remember them for their patient attendance when we were ill , their doing the humble tasks of feeding and clean- ing us ; we remember scenes , expeditions , punishments , special occasions . For most of us a woman ...
Page 57
... early stage in feminist thought . Two widely read women theorists , Helen Diner ( first published in Germany in the late 1920s ) and Elizabeth Gould Davis ( writing in the 1970s ) both drew heavily on earlier writers , notably J. J. ...
... early stage in feminist thought . Two widely read women theorists , Helen Diner ( first published in Germany in the late 1920s ) and Elizabeth Gould Davis ( writing in the 1970s ) both drew heavily on earlier writers , notably J. J. ...
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... early that gender has something to do with emotional attunement to others . Yet finally he must be taken over by these male figures . Tribal societies have always required a " sec- ond birth " of the young boy at puberty into the male ...
... early that gender has something to do with emotional attunement to others . Yet finally he must be taken over by these male figures . Tribal societies have always required a " sec- ond birth " of the young boy at puberty into the male ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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