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Page 79
... once expressed it , a myth is not something that springs “ clean and clear out of
the imagination ( if anything can be said to do that ) but is rather a response to the
environment , an interaction between the mind and its external world .
... once expressed it , a myth is not something that springs “ clean and clear out of
the imagination ( if anything can be said to do that ) but is rather a response to the
environment , an interaction between the mind and its external world .
Page 90
... mythology Joseph Campbell compares the energy - releasing response to
myth undertake activities which would require large numbers of women to work
simultaneously in situations which are dangerous to children , ” whether this
means ...
... mythology Joseph Campbell compares the energy - releasing response to
myth undertake activities which would require large numbers of women to work
simultaneously in situations which are dangerous to children , ” whether this
means ...
Page 178
The response of early Christian man might have been to read his wife the
passages from the Scriptures telling her it was her lot to suffer so ; the response
of modern doctors to inject drugs to end the suffering . Yet neither reaction is
responsible ...
The response of early Christian man might have been to read his wife the
passages from the Scriptures telling her it was her lot to suffer so ; the response
of modern doctors to inject drugs to end the suffering . Yet neither reaction is
responsible ...
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Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution |
| Author | Adrienne Cecile Rich |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Bantam Books, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 055320078X, 9780553200782 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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