Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 58
... sexuality , as surely as any Victorian wife , though the notions themselves had changed . And the " pill " itself is a mechanistic and patriarchal device , recently proven to have deadly side - effects.25 But the liberalization of sexual ...
... sexuality , as surely as any Victorian wife , though the notions themselves had changed . And the " pill " itself is a mechanistic and patriarchal device , recently proven to have deadly side - effects.25 But the liberalization of sexual ...
Page 103
... sexual temptress and consumer of his sexual energies , thus becomes , for man , a figure generating anxiety : " Woman is a mys- terious being who communicates with spirits and thus has magic powers that she can use to hurt the male . He ...
... sexual temptress and consumer of his sexual energies , thus becomes , for man , a figure generating anxiety : " Woman is a mys- terious being who communicates with spirits and thus has magic powers that she can use to hurt the male . He ...
Page 180
... sexual enjoyment than men " ; 11 and the sociologist Alice Rossi observes , 41 I suspect that the more male dominance characterizes a Western society , the greater is the dissociation be- tween sexuality and maternalism . It is to men's ...
... sexual enjoyment than men " ; 11 and the sociologist Alice Rossi observes , 41 I suspect that the more male dominance characterizes a Western society , the greater is the dissociation be- tween sexuality and maternalism . It is to men's ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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