Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 102
... misogyny is an unwarranted generalization " and suggest that despite the evidence to the contrary they have accumulated , misogyny is really an aberrant strain in human culture . At the same time they admit that misogyny is " cultural ...
... misogyny is an unwarranted generalization " and suggest that despite the evidence to the contrary they have accumulated , misogyny is really an aberrant strain in human culture . At the same time they admit that misogyny is " cultural ...
Page 124
... misogyny of the Church Fathers , which saw woman - especially her reproductive organs - as evil incarnate , attached itself to the birth - process , so that males were forbidden to attend at births , and the midwife was exhorted to make ...
... misogyny of the Church Fathers , which saw woman - especially her reproductive organs - as evil incarnate , attached itself to the birth - process , so that males were forbidden to attend at births , and the midwife was exhorted to make ...
Page 132
... misogyny . The midwives ' work was either stolen and reproduced in the form of treatises by " learned " scientists , or treated as " heath- en charms , " " old wives ' tales , " and derogated as the pretensions of " high and lofty ...
... misogyny . The midwives ' work was either stolen and reproduced in the form of treatises by " learned " scientists , or treated as " heath- en charms , " " old wives ' tales , " and derogated as the pretensions of " high and lofty ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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