Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page 226
... turned into an anxious , worrying , puritanical keeper of our virginity ; or if she had simply left us because she needed to live without a child - whatever our rational forgiveness , whatever the individual mother's love and strength ...
... turned into an anxious , worrying , puritanical keeper of our virginity ; or if she had simply left us because she needed to live without a child - whatever our rational forgiveness , whatever the individual mother's love and strength ...
Page 242
... turned to the ini- tiates and showed them a cut - off ear of grain : All who had " seen " turned , at the sight of this " con- crete thing , " as though turning back from the here- after into this world , back to the world of tangible ...
... turned to the ini- tiates and showed them a cut - off ear of grain : All who had " seen " turned , at the sight of this " con- crete thing , " as though turning back from the here- after into this world , back to the world of tangible ...
Page 288
... turned over " to women ( by whom , and under what kinds of effective pressure ? ) ; to talk of impressing " unchilded " women into child - care as a political duty , of boycotting pa- triarchal institutions , of the commune as a ...
... turned over " to women ( by whom , and under what kinds of effective pressure ? ) ; to talk of impressing " unchilded " women into child - care as a political duty , of boycotting pa- triarchal institutions , of the commune as a ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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