Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 132
... practice.28 The waste of female lives through these centuries was partly unavoidable ; mortality of both sexes , and from all causes , was high before the discovery of asepsis and the refinement of anatomical knowledge with dissection ...
... practice.28 The waste of female lives through these centuries was partly unavoidable ; mortality of both sexes , and from all causes , was high before the discovery of asepsis and the refinement of anatomical knowledge with dissection ...
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... practice conflict with her duties as a wife and mother . She was sup- posed to bear him two children , a boy and a girl . She had to keep her household books to the last penny - I still can see the big blue gray ledgers , inscribed in ...
... practice conflict with her duties as a wife and mother . She was sup- posed to bear him two children , a boy and a girl . She had to keep her household books to the last penny - I still can see the big blue gray ledgers , inscribed in ...
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... Practice ( New York : McGraw - Hill , 1956 ) , p . 304 . 26. Graham , op . cit . , p . 115 . 27. Ibid . , p . 120 . 28. Ibid . , pp . 106-22 . 29. John Leake , M.D. , A Lecture Introductory to the Theory and Practice of Midwifery ...
... Practice ( New York : McGraw - Hill , 1956 ) , p . 304 . 26. Graham , op . cit . , p . 115 . 27. Ibid . , p . 120 . 28. Ibid . , pp . 106-22 . 29. John Leake , M.D. , A Lecture Introductory to the Theory and Practice of Midwifery ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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