Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution1976 |
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... mother's strength September 23 , 1941 - I felt free . " She who ought to have helped the son defy the father's tyranny , handing him over instead to the male realm of judgment and force . " Mother un- consciously played the part of a ...
... mother's strength September 23 , 1941 - I felt free . " She who ought to have helped the son defy the father's tyranny , handing him over instead to the male realm of judgment and force . " Mother un- consciously played the part of a ...
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... mother who had chosen , in Christabel Pankhurst's words , that " reck- oning the cost [ of her suffragist activism ] in advance , Mother pre- pared to pay it , for women's sake . " It was not enough to understand our mothers ; more than ...
... mother who had chosen , in Christabel Pankhurst's words , that " reck- oning the cost [ of her suffragist activism ] in advance , Mother pre- pared to pay it , for women's sake . " It was not enough to understand our mothers ; more than ...
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... mother might not accept the terms of her life . Writing in 1899 of her struggles with her work , she says : " I write this especially for mother . I think she feels that my life is one long continuous egoistic drunken joyousness . " On ...
... mother might not accept the terms of her life . Writing in 1899 of her struggles with her work , she says : " I write this especially for mother . I think she feels that my life is one long continuous egoistic drunken joyousness . " On ...
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The Sacred Calling | 19 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 32 |
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