Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 124
... infant - in utero , with a syringe of holy water if necessary.12 With convenient double think , the midwife was classified with the sow - gelder as performing a necessary but degraded function ; however , she , and she alone , except ...
... infant - in utero , with a syringe of holy water if necessary.12 With convenient double think , the midwife was classified with the sow - gelder as performing a necessary but degraded function ; however , she , and she alone , except ...
Page 175
... infant mortality rate ( number of infant deaths per 1000 live births , in the first year of life ) . She surveyed the routine methods used in American hospital obstetrics , researched the literature on each , and compared them with ...
... infant mortality rate ( number of infant deaths per 1000 live births , in the first year of life ) . She surveyed the routine methods used in American hospital obstetrics , researched the literature on each , and compared them with ...
Page 265
... infant was no callous criminal , but a desperate person . Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine the Great of Russia both established foundling homes and materni- ty clinics to receive the children of illegitimate preg- nancies , and ...
... infant was no callous criminal , but a desperate person . Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine the Great of Russia both established foundling homes and materni- ty clinics to receive the children of illegitimate preg- nancies , and ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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