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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... caring . It starts with the anxiety which accompanies the plunge into motherhood which quite naturally occurs in the first 4-6 post - partum weeks , when the new mother is in a mental state which if it existed in anyone else we should ...
... caring . It starts with the anxiety which accompanies the plunge into motherhood which quite naturally occurs in the first 4-6 post - partum weeks , when the new mother is in a mental state which if it existed in anyone else we should ...
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... caring has on the quality of family life . The 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 ...
... caring has on the quality of family life . The 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 ...
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... caring for the child in the children's houses as he or she moved up from one to another . Bruno Bettelheim saw this as resulting , for the mothers , in feelings of guilt at not caring for their own children as their mothers had done ...
... caring for the child in the children's houses as he or she moved up from one to another . Bruno Bettelheim saw this as resulting , for the mothers , in feelings of guilt at not caring for their own children as their mothers had done ...
Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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