Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 155
... look after them , they were tied by them from morning to night , forced to forget ev- erything else for sake of the white bundle , sacrifice everything for it . And Alberta felt mutinous . She thought : I'm not ready with myself yet , I ...
... look after them , they were tied by them from morning to night , forced to forget ev- erything else for sake of the white bundle , sacrifice everything for it . And Alberta felt mutinous . She thought : I'm not ready with myself yet , I ...
Page 177
... out of the hospital or make it a woman's event " ( Suzanne Arms , Immaculate Deception [ Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1975 ] , p . 160 ) . nearest figure of authority with beseeching eyes and look on ALIENATED LABOR 177.
... out of the hospital or make it a woman's event " ( Suzanne Arms , Immaculate Deception [ Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1975 ] , p . 160 ) . nearest figure of authority with beseeching eyes and look on ALIENATED LABOR 177.
Page 178
... look on her face that no one who has ever attended a delivery will forget . It is a look of shock and disbe- lief , a statement all its own that woman is never so completely and totally alone than at this moment . A beseechingly ...
... look on her face that no one who has ever attended a delivery will forget . It is a look of shock and disbe- lief , a statement all its own that woman is never so completely and totally alone than at this moment . A beseechingly ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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