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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... Jamaican pregnant woman must not drink soursop juice or she will have great pain in labour , drink out of bottles or coconuts lest the baby be cross - eyed , or walk over soapy water when someone is scrubbing the floor , or she will ...
... Jamaican pregnant woman must not drink soursop juice or she will have great pain in labour , drink out of bottles or coconuts lest the baby be cross - eyed , or walk over soapy water when someone is scrubbing the floor , or she will ...
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... Jamaican and English women dreamed of small furry animals - kittens or puppies for example- and sometimes that they actually gave birth to them . Although Jamaican women had anxiety dreams too , in which they stood . on the edge of , or ...
... Jamaican and English women dreamed of small furry animals - kittens or puppies for example- and sometimes that they actually gave birth to them . Although Jamaican women had anxiety dreams too , in which they stood . on the edge of , or ...
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... JAMAICA Nanas are the folk midwives who in the past delivered most Jamaican babies , and had to because there were too few trained 18 Thomas Szasz , The Manufacture of Madness , Delta , USA , 1971 . 19 Quoted in Barbara Ehrenreich and ...
... JAMAICA Nanas are the folk midwives who in the past delivered most Jamaican babies , and had to because there were too few trained 18 Thomas Szasz , The Manufacture of Madness , Delta , USA , 1971 . 19 Quoted in Barbara Ehrenreich and ...
Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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