Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 73
... mind and the strange , aimless striving peculiar to women ... hovering between frenzy and reflection , between voluptuousness and virtue . " ( Emphasis mine . ) 1 * In the conflict between the sexes , whose cycles he attempts to trace ...
... mind and the strange , aimless striving peculiar to women ... hovering between frenzy and reflection , between voluptuousness and virtue . " ( Emphasis mine . ) 1 * In the conflict between the sexes , whose cycles he attempts to trace ...
Page 76
... mind there is no yearning for a matriarchy of the future , and there is great ambivalence toward the idea of past matriarchy , and indeed toward the fe- male presence . 2 Robert Briffault's three - volume work , The Mothers , first ...
... mind there is no yearning for a matriarchy of the future , and there is great ambivalence toward the idea of past matriarchy , and indeed toward the fe- male presence . 2 Robert Briffault's three - volume work , The Mothers , first ...
Page 280
... mind , no visible embodiment of authori- ty , power , or of potential or actual violence . Mother- hood calls to mind the home , and we like to believe that the home is a private place . Perhaps we imagine row upon row of backyards ...
... mind , no visible embodiment of authori- ty , power , or of potential or actual violence . Mother- hood calls to mind the home , and we like to believe that the home is a private place . Perhaps we imagine row upon row of backyards ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
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