Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 21
... female body - has far more radical implications than we have yet come to appreciate . Patriarchal thought has lim- ited female biology to its own narrow specifications . The feminist vision has recoiled from female biology for these ...
... female body - has far more radical implications than we have yet come to appreciate . Patriarchal thought has lim- ited female biology to its own narrow specifications . The feminist vision has recoiled from female biology for these ...
Page 58
... female body , larger and stronger than our own , and to female warmth , nurture , and tenderness , there is a new concern for the possibilities inherent in benefi- cent female power , as a mode which is absent from the society at large ...
... female body , larger and stronger than our own , and to female warmth , nurture , and tenderness , there is a new concern for the possibilities inherent in benefi- cent female power , as a mode which is absent from the society at large ...
Page 116
... female power of procreation was charged with mana . The sacred , the potent , the cre- ative were symbolized as female . When not absorbed in fending for existence , or ritually acknowledging the ( female ) powers ruling life and death ...
... female power of procreation was charged with mana . The sacred , the potent , the cre- ative were symbolized as female . When not absorbed in fending for existence , or ritually acknowledging the ( female ) powers ruling life and death ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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