Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page xvi
... women who cause rape by being unchaste or in the wrong place at the wrong time - in essence , by behaving as though they were free . The fear of rape keeps women off the streets at night . Keeps women at home . Keeps women passive and ...
... women who cause rape by being unchaste or in the wrong place at the wrong time - in essence , by behaving as though they were free . The fear of rape keeps women off the streets at night . Keeps women at home . Keeps women passive and ...
Page 256
... women's condition . Yet ironically , precisely because they were not bound to the cycle of hourly existence with children , because they could reflect , observe , write , such women in the past have given us some of the few available ...
... women's condition . Yet ironically , precisely because they were not bound to the cycle of hourly existence with children , because they could reflect , observe , write , such women in the past have given us some of the few available ...
Page 288
... women , whether as mothers , as daughters , or both . Various writers have called for a new ma- triarchalism ; for the taking over by women of genetic technology ; for the insistence on child ... women , any more than 288 OF WOMAN BORN.
... women , whether as mothers , as daughters , or both . Various writers have called for a new ma- triarchalism ; for the taking over by women of genetic technology ; for the insistence on child ... women , any more than 288 OF WOMAN BORN.
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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