Women as MothersA leading social anthropologist examines what being a mother means to a woman as a person , using examples from societies all over the world, and concludes that a great deal of what we call “maternal instinct” is culturally imposed and that there is no “right” or “wrong” way of mothering. -- Publisher description. |
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... West , is also characteristic of hunting and gathering societies where people are living at subsistence level . But the extended family predominates in agricultural economies which also go in for rearing animals.3 Nuclear families are ...
... West , is also characteristic of hunting and gathering societies where people are living at subsistence level . But the extended family predominates in agricultural economies which also go in for rearing animals.3 Nuclear families are ...
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... West exports its technology with as much vigour as the Victorians did their religion and forms of administration . We tend to believe that if a machine to regulate labour or an ob- stetric procedure is right for one woman whose baby is ...
... West exports its technology with as much vigour as the Victorians did their religion and forms of administration . We tend to believe that if a machine to regulate labour or an ob- stetric procedure is right for one woman whose baby is ...
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... West Indies ) from their mother's mother . Every peasant child has the experience of caring for still younger children , siblings or cousins . As soon as a child can walk easily she may have a baby strapped to her back , and small ...
... West Indies ) from their mother's mother . Every peasant child has the experience of caring for still younger children , siblings or cousins . As soon as a child can walk easily she may have a baby strapped to her back , and small ...
Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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