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The Mbuti depend an hunting for food, so prohibition of intercourse before birth
and before going out on a hunt stresses the importance of these two activities.
Moreover, pregnant women are not allowed to accompany a hunt. For these
hunters ...
The Mbuti depend an hunting for food, so prohibition of intercourse before birth
and before going out on a hunt stresses the importance of these two activities.
Moreover, pregnant women are not allowed to accompany a hunt. For these
hunters ...
Page 72
Peasant women continue their normal activities and remain active until
contractions start, and frequently during a large part of the first stage of labour.
Keneba women of the Gambia continue to carry loads of clay or salt on the head
weighing ...
Peasant women continue their normal activities and remain active until
contractions start, and frequently during a large part of the first stage of labour.
Keneba women of the Gambia continue to carry loads of clay or salt on the head
weighing ...
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Children can gain much from participating in the world outside the home, not only
in planned play groups and carefully controlled child-centred environments, but
in the hurly burly of adult activities. After all, they are going to grow up to become
...
Children can gain much from participating in the world outside the home, not only
in planned play groups and carefully controlled child-centred environments, but
in the hurly burly of adult activities. After all, they are going to grow up to become
...
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Contents
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
Getting and Not Getting Pregnant | 54 |
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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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