Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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... institution of motherhood is not identical with bearing and caring for children , any more than the institution of heterosexuality is identical with intimacy and sexual love . Both create the prescriptions and the conditions in which ...
... institution of motherhood is not identical with bearing and caring for children , any more than the institution of heterosexuality is identical with intimacy and sexual love . Both create the prescriptions and the conditions in which ...
Page 279
... institution , we can usually see it as embodied in a building : the Vatican , the Penta- gon , the Sorbonne , the Treasury , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the Kremlin , the Supreme Court . What we cannot see , until we ...
... institution , we can usually see it as embodied in a building : the Vatican , the Penta- gon , the Sorbonne , the Treasury , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the Kremlin , the Supreme Court . What we cannot see , until we ...
Page 280
... institutions of which it is supposedly independent . When we think of the institution of motherhood , no symbolic architec- ture comes to mind , no visible embodiment of authori- ty , power , or of potential or actual violence . Mother ...
... institutions of which it is supposedly independent . When we think of the institution of motherhood , no symbolic architec- ture comes to mind , no visible embodiment of authori- ty , power , or of potential or actual violence . Mother ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
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