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... and those members of the Medical Research Council Epidemiological
Research Unit at the University of the West Indies and public health workers ,
doctors , nurses and teachers in Kingston , in the countryside and on the staff of
the Jubilee ...
... and those members of the Medical Research Council Epidemiological
Research Unit at the University of the West Indies and public health workers ,
doctors , nurses and teachers in Kingston , in the countryside and on the staff of
the Jubilee ...
Page 107
... may be a testing time comparable to that of her initiation at puberty . In a West
African village where Barbara Thompson1 carefully observed women in labour it
was clear that they were expected to have their babies without making a sound ...
... may be a testing time comparable to that of her initiation at puberty . In a West
African village where Barbara Thompson1 carefully observed women in labour it
was clear that they were expected to have their babies without making a sound ...
Page 203
A gulf develops between what West Indian immigrant mothers in Britain for
example , call ' the old time way and the instructions and advice that they receive
at Health Clinics . The conflicting experiences of mothering are a cause of family
...
A gulf develops between what West Indian immigrant mothers in Britain for
example , call ' the old time way and the instructions and advice that they receive
at Health Clinics . The conflicting experiences of mothering are a cause of family
...
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Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood | 13 |
The Motherhood Trap | 31 |
Mothers in the Social System | 51 |
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| Title | Women as Mothers Volume 3761 of Fontana Books Fontana original |
| Author | Sheila Kitzinger |
| Publisher | Fontana, 1978 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0006337619, 9780006337614 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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