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Page 40
The nuclear family, with a mother, her husband and their children, to which we
are accustomed in the industrialized West, is also characteristic of hunting and
gathering societies where people are living at subsistence level. But the
extended ...
The nuclear family, with a mother, her husband and their children, to which we
are accustomed in the industrialized West, is also characteristic of hunting and
gathering societies where people are living at subsistence level. But the
extended ...
Page 93
In West Africa a labouring woman may kneel, with women holding her on either
side. She may prefer to hang from the rafters, swinging backwards and forwards
for part of her labour.9 Or she may crouch between two house posts, pulling ...
In West Africa a labouring woman may kneel, with women holding her on either
side. She may prefer to hang from the rafters, swinging backwards and forwards
for part of her labour.9 Or she may crouch between two house posts, pulling ...
Page 159
The traditional ways of birth and the culturally accepted manner in which the
mother first relates to the baby and the baby to her, are destroyed and replaced
with Western methods. The focus of obstetric and neonatal care is almost
exclusively ...
The traditional ways of birth and the culturally accepted manner in which the
mother first relates to the baby and the baby to her, are destroyed and replaced
with Western methods. The focus of obstetric and neonatal care is almost
exclusively ...
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Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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| Title | Women as Mothers |
| Author | Sheila Kitzinger |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Random House, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0394506510, 9780394506517 |
| Length | 239 pages |
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