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Page 118
... the sale of laxatives has reached astronomical proportions . These attitudes to
bowel functions are carried over to childbirth . In technologically advanced
societies the labouring woman is given an enema or suppository to empty the
bowel .
... the sale of laxatives has reached astronomical proportions . These attitudes to
bowel functions are carried over to childbirth . In technologically advanced
societies the labouring woman is given an enema or suppository to empty the
bowel .
Page 206
have loving , tender feelings about their babies , that as a consequence of the
biological act of having given birth women become different from their former
selves , are selfless and giving and experience supreme satisfaction in sacrificing
...
have loving , tender feelings about their babies , that as a consequence of the
biological act of having given birth women become different from their former
selves , are selfless and giving and experience supreme satisfaction in sacrificing
...
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From this time on a grandmother must be treated with great consideration ;
everything she asks for must be given her , her opinions listened to with respect ,
and she should never be criticized . The equivalence of generations is here given
...
From this time on a grandmother must be treated with great consideration ;
everything she asks for must be given her , her opinions listened to with respect ,
and she should never be criticized . The equivalence of generations is here given
...
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Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood | 13 |
The Motherhood Trap | 31 |
Mothers in the Social System | 51 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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