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Perhaps this is why mothers tend to ' compare the products and to look anxiously
at their own baby ' s weight , or skin condition , the number of teeth , or whether it
is sitting up or crawling yet , feeling that this kind of thing can show whether ...
Perhaps this is why mothers tend to ' compare the products and to look anxiously
at their own baby ' s weight , or skin condition , the number of teeth , or whether it
is sitting up or crawling yet , feeling that this kind of thing can show whether ...
Page 53
We tend to think of our own industrialized , urban society as circumscribed by
forces outside our personal control and often idealize simpler societies as
allowing a greater personal freedom , a more ' natural way of life , and the
spontaneous ...
We tend to think of our own industrialized , urban society as circumscribed by
forces outside our personal control and often idealize simpler societies as
allowing a greater personal freedom , a more ' natural way of life , and the
spontaneous ...
Page 63
... and the struggle to break away and be women in their own right results in a
conflict in the mother - daughter relation which is expressed in adolescent crisis .
Mothers tend to identify with their own mothers . They also tend spontaneously ...
... and the struggle to break away and be women in their own right results in a
conflict in the mother - daughter relation which is expressed in adolescent crisis .
Mothers tend to identify with their own mothers . They also tend spontaneously ...
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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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