Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution1976 |
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... women from our bodies by incarcerating us in them . At certain points in history , and in certain cultures , the idea of woman - as- mother has worked to endow all women with respect , even with awe , and to give women some say in the ...
... women from our bodies by incarcerating us in them . At certain points in history , and in certain cultures , the idea of woman - as- mother has worked to endow all women with respect , even with awe , and to give women some say in the ...
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... women in the past have given us some of the few available strong insights into the experience of women in general . Without the unacclaimed research and scholarship of " childless " women , without Charlotte Brontë ( who died in her ...
... women in the past have given us some of the few available strong insights into the experience of women in general . Without the unacclaimed research and scholarship of " childless " women , without Charlotte Brontë ( who died in her ...
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... women of genetic technology ; for the insistence on child - care as a political commitment by all members of a community or by all " child - free " women ; communal child - raising ; the return to a " village " concept of community in ...
... women of genetic technology ; for the insistence on child - care as a political commitment by all members of a community or by all " child - free " women ; communal child - raising ; the return to a " village " concept of community in ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 19 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 32 |
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