Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Page xvii
... write a book on moth- erhood because it was a crucial , still relatively unex- plored , area for feminist theory . But I did not choose this subject ; it had long ago chosen me . This book is rooted in my own past , tangled with parts ...
... write a book on moth- erhood because it was a crucial , still relatively unex- plored , area for feminist theory . But I did not choose this subject ; it had long ago chosen me . This book is rooted in my own past , tangled with parts ...
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... writer were a kind of luxury , a peculiarity of mine ; my work brought in almost no money : it even cost money , when I hired a household helper to allow me a few hours a week to write . " Whatever I ask he tries to give me , " I wrote ...
... writer were a kind of luxury , a peculiarity of mine ; my work brought in almost no money : it even cost money , when I hired a household helper to allow me a few hours a week to write . " Whatever I ask he tries to give me , " I wrote ...
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... Writing in 1899 of her struggles with her work , she says : " I write this espe- cially for mother . I think she feels that my life is one long continuous egoistic drunken joyousness . " On leaving her husband she writes : " I was so ...
... Writing in 1899 of her struggles with her work , she says : " I write this espe- cially for mother . I think she feels that my life is one long continuous egoistic drunken joyousness . " On leaving her husband she writes : " I was so ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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