Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Motherhood as Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich. view . * These two forces - the humanitarian concern for child ... force behind the enactment of child - labor laws and of laws restricting the hours and conditions of work for women ...
Motherhood as Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich. view . * These two forces - the humanitarian concern for child ... force behind the enactment of child - labor laws and of laws restricting the hours and conditions of work for women ...
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... force ; most often with both . But we have also experienced , more intuitively and unconsciously , men's fantasies of our power , fantasies rooted far back in infancy , and in some mythogenetic zone of history . Whatever their origins ...
... force ; most often with both . But we have also experienced , more intuitively and unconsciously , men's fantasies of our power , fantasies rooted far back in infancy , and in some mythogenetic zone of history . Whatever their origins ...
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... force the child's de- scent ) , trampling on the abdomen directly above the fetus , or tying tight clothes around the mother's body to force expulsion . If her contractions were weak * The oldest existing medical treatise , the Ebers ...
... force the child's de- scent ) , trampling on the abdomen directly above the fetus , or tying tight clothes around the mother's body to force expulsion . If her contractions were weak * The oldest existing medical treatise , the Ebers ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
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