Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 68
... physical energy , and ger- minating desire even , perhaps , some vague imagina- tion that her life might be different from her mother's . Her sense of time is vague ; impossible to imagine herself as a being separate from all these ...
... physical energy , and ger- minating desire even , perhaps , some vague imagina- tion that her life might be different from her mother's . Her sense of time is vague ; impossible to imagine herself as a being separate from all these ...
Page 158
... physical self - hatred and suspicion of one's own body is scarcely a favorable emotion with which to enter an intense physical experience.10 Finally , there is the pain of sexual guilt . In some cultures , confessions of adultery are ...
... physical self - hatred and suspicion of one's own body is scarcely a favorable emotion with which to enter an intense physical experience.10 Finally , there is the pain of sexual guilt . In some cultures , confessions of adultery are ...
Page 291
... physical organization which has meant , for gen- erations of women , unchosen , indentured motherhood , is still a female resource barely touched upon or un- derstood . We have tended either to become our bod ies - blindly , slavishly ...
... physical organization which has meant , for gen- erations of women , unchosen , indentured motherhood , is still a female resource barely touched upon or un- derstood . We have tended either to become our bod ies - blindly , slavishly ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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