Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 156
... fear , tension , and pain . Fear stands high on the list . In the woman bearing her first child there is first of all fear of the unknown . She has heard all her life tales of " how women suffer " ; she may have at- tended births and ...
... fear , tension , and pain . Fear stands high on the list . In the woman bearing her first child there is first of all fear of the unknown . She has heard all her life tales of " how women suffer " ; she may have at- tended births and ...
Page 157
... fear . Freedman and Ferguson's study of child- birth , cited above , concludes that the fear of suffer- ing derives from " empirically derived knowledge of mutilations and deaths " or of the births of mon- strosities . The fear of death ...
... fear . Freedman and Ferguson's study of child- birth , cited above , concludes that the fear of suffer- ing derives from " empirically derived knowledge of mutilations and deaths " or of the births of mon- strosities . The fear of death ...
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Motherhood as Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich. Fear of childbirth , 157-61 Fear of women , 21 , 55-56 , 91-94 , 99-107 , 212-13 Fear of Women , The ( Leder- er ) , 102n " Female World of Love and Ritual : Relations between Women ...
Motherhood as Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich. Fear of childbirth , 157-61 Fear of women , 21 , 55-56 , 91-94 , 99-107 , 212-13 Fear of Women , The ( Leder- er ) , 102n " Female World of Love and Ritual : Relations between Women ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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