Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution1976 |
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... pregnancy which suggest that it is re- lated not to aversion to the pregnancy itself but to the conditions of conception - frequent undesired sex and the absence of orgasm.11 ) Yet even women who have been raped seem often to assimilate ...
... pregnancy which suggest that it is re- lated not to aversion to the pregnancy itself but to the conditions of conception - frequent undesired sex and the absence of orgasm.11 ) Yet even women who have been raped seem often to assimilate ...
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... pregnancy . Closely related to this is the notion of childbirth as illness . Niles Newton cites the Cuna Indians of Panama , who " regard childbirth as so abnormal that the mother goes to the medicine man daily throughout pregnancy for ...
... pregnancy . Closely related to this is the notion of childbirth as illness . Niles Newton cites the Cuna Indians of Panama , who " regard childbirth as so abnormal that the mother goes to the medicine man daily throughout pregnancy for ...
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... pregnancy ( " the husband's guilty waning of sexual desire ; the woman's tears in front of the mir- ror at eight ... pregnancy , which was assumed to be measles , may have justified medical intervention . But in each subsequent pregnancy ...
... pregnancy ( " the husband's guilty waning of sexual desire ; the woman's tears in front of the mir- ror at eight ... pregnancy , which was assumed to be measles , may have justified medical intervention . But in each subsequent pregnancy ...
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