Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution1976 |
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... imagine having written this book without the presence in my life of my mother , who offers a continuing example of transformation and rebirth ; and of my sister , with and from whom I go on learning about sisterhood , daughterhood ...
... imagine having written this book without the presence in my life of my mother , who offers a continuing example of transformation and rebirth ; and of my sister , with and from whom I go on learning about sisterhood , daughterhood ...
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... imagine herself as a being separate from all these lives . Once in a while she looks into the glass and sees that she is becoming her mother . At the other end of the spectrum let us imagine a laboratory in which men - the most powerful ...
... imagine herself as a being separate from all these lives . Once in a while she looks into the glass and sees that she is becoming her mother . At the other end of the spectrum let us imagine a laboratory in which men - the most powerful ...
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... imagine that the patriarchal , patrilineal family of Western culture was neither as essential nor as inevitable as it had seemed . It began to be possible to imagine some universal earlier civilization in which mother - right , not ...
... imagine that the patriarchal , patrilineal family of Western culture was neither as essential nor as inevitable as it had seemed . It began to be possible to imagine some universal earlier civilization in which mother - right , not ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 19 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 32 |
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