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Under such circumstances , the mother faces a range of painful , socially
weighted choices : abortion , suicide , abandonment of the child , infanticide , the
rearing of a child branded “ illegitimate , " usually in poverty , always outside the
law .
Under such circumstances , the mother faces a range of painful , socially
weighted choices : abortion , suicide , abandonment of the child , infanticide , the
rearing of a child branded “ illegitimate , " usually in poverty , always outside the
law .
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... this is a powerful and an imaginative response to the faces we see
aggrandized on our TV screens , the faces of male leaders , the pure products of
patriarchy , who appear less and less credible , less and less informed by any
responsible ...
... this is a powerful and an imaginative response to the faces we see
aggrandized on our TV screens , the faces of male leaders , the pure products of
patriarchy , who appear less and less credible , less and less informed by any
responsible ...
Page 234
I see on her face for a long moment , the unconscious bliss that an infant carries
the memory of behind its shut eyes . Then when it is she who makes love to me . .
. the intensity is. * * * * Simone de Beauvoir says of her mother that : 234 OF ...
I see on her face for a long moment , the unconscious bliss that an infant carries
the memory of behind its shut eyes . Then when it is she who makes love to me . .
. the intensity is. * * * * Simone de Beauvoir says of her mother that : 234 OF ...
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