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Under such circumstances, the mother faces a range of painful, socially weighted
choices: abortion, suicide, abandonment of the child, infanticide, the rearing of a
child branded “illegitimate,” usually in poverty, always outside the law. In some ...
Under such circumstances, the mother faces a range of painful, socially weighted
choices: abortion, suicide, abandonment of the child, infanticide, the rearing of a
child branded “illegitimate,” usually in poverty, always outside the law. In some ...
Page 157
In societies systematically practicing female infanticide, women might
understandably wish for boys rather than face the prospect of nine months of
pregnancy whose outcome would be treated as a waste product. Yet, under the
realities of ...
In societies systematically practicing female infanticide, women might
understandably wish for boys rather than face the prospect of nine months of
pregnancy whose outcome would be treated as a waste product. Yet, under the
realities of ...
Page 205
A female child needs to be told, very early, the practical difficulties females have
to face in even trying to imagine “what they want to be.” Mothers who can talk
freely with their daughters about sex, even teaching them to use contraception in
...
A female child needs to be told, very early, the practical difficulties females have
to face in even trying to imagine “what they want to be.” Mothers who can talk
freely with their daughters about sex, even teaching them to use contraception in
...
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Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 19 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 32 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution |
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| Published | 1976 |
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