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Unexamined assumptions : First , that a " natural " mother is a person without
further identity , one who can find her chief gratification in being all day with small
children , living at a pace tuned to theirs ; that the isolation of mothers and
children ...
Unexamined assumptions : First , that a " natural " mother is a person without
further identity , one who can find her chief gratification in being all day with small
children , living at a pace tuned to theirs ; that the isolation of mothers and
children ...
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Once more , responsibility toward the other , genuine knowledge of the other as
person , is unnecessary . The language of patriarchal power insists on a
dichotomy : for one person to have power , others or another - must be powerless
.
Once more , responsibility toward the other , genuine knowledge of the other as
person , is unnecessary . The language of patriarchal power insists on a
dichotomy : for one person to have power , others or another - must be powerless
.
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A third person , other persons , are obviously necessary to relieve this anxiety , to
dry his tears of abandonment , to ... are not embodied solely in one person , his
mother , and to make it possible for him to accept her separateness and his own .
A third person , other persons , are obviously necessary to relieve this anxiety , to
dry his tears of abandonment , to ... are not embodied solely in one person , his
mother , and to make it possible for him to accept her separateness and his own .
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