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Page 119
It may also be thought that anyone obtaining the placenta can get power over the
child , so it must be disposed of carefully and secretly , either by burying or
burning . Men and childbirth Childbirth , like menstruation , is in many societies ...
It may also be thought that anyone obtaining the placenta can get power over the
child , so it must be disposed of carefully and secretly , either by burying or
burning . Men and childbirth Childbirth , like menstruation , is in many societies ...
Page 131
Nanas are very wary of taking any active part in the third stage , because they
know that if the woman has a post - partum haemorrhage they will be thought to
have caused it . So they usually give the woman thyme tea and let her deliver the
...
Nanas are very wary of taking any active part in the third stage , because they
know that if the woman has a post - partum haemorrhage they will be thought to
have caused it . So they usually give the woman thyme tea and let her deliver the
...
Page 207
I thought they were just mothers , and the main thing about them was that they
were motherly . ' Mothers who cannot mother No one knows how much violence
is expressed against children in pre - industrial societies . It would be quite wrong
...
I thought they were just mothers , and the main thing about them was that they
were motherly . ' Mothers who cannot mother No one knows how much violence
is expressed against children in pre - industrial societies . It would be quite wrong
...
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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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