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Page 73
Blood pressure must stay within carefully defined limits, but no studies have been
done to determine if there are any socially created stresses in the life of a
pregnant woman today which may make it likely that she should become
hypertensive.
Blood pressure must stay within carefully defined limits, but no studies have been
done to determine if there are any socially created stresses in the life of a
pregnant woman today which may make it likely that she should become
hypertensive.
Page 104
These herbal teas are prescribed according to the woman's condition: cerasee 'to
clean the blood' or for high blood pressure, 'fever grass' for headaches and mixed
with rum for vomiting, cape gooseberry, sometimes called 'wild tomato', ...
These herbal teas are prescribed according to the woman's condition: cerasee 'to
clean the blood' or for high blood pressure, 'fever grass' for headaches and mixed
with rum for vomiting, cape gooseberry, sometimes called 'wild tomato', ...
Page 199
Woman as a sexual being is an agent of impurity because of menstruation: And if
a woman have an issue, and the issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her
impurity seven days'.12 If a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and
...
Woman as a sexual being is an agent of impurity because of menstruation: And if
a woman have an issue, and the issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her
impurity seven days'.12 If a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and
...
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Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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| Title | Women As Mothers |
| Author | Sheila Kitzinger |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Randomd House, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0394506510, 9780394506517 |
| Length | 239 pages |
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