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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... comes as a great disappointment to many that this proves not to be so for them , for it is somewhere where the ugliest and most powerful destructive emotions are experienced , where there is disturbing interpersonal conflict at its most ...
... comes as a great disappointment to many that this proves not to be so for them , for it is somewhere where the ugliest and most powerful destructive emotions are experienced , where there is disturbing interpersonal conflict at its most ...
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... comes to her in the dream and tries to follow it . An American , Jane Lazarre , 26 whose mother died when she was a child , refers to the same kind of experience when she writes : ' I got pregnant and she returned to me , but in a new ...
... comes to her in the dream and tries to follow it . An American , Jane Lazarre , 26 whose mother died when she was a child , refers to the same kind of experience when she writes : ' I got pregnant and she returned to me , but in a new ...
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... comes here she'll take over ' ; ' Roger would like to opt out , and leave me with my mother , but I'm grown up now ... come to stay or when the mother has been visiting her . In my own experience of postnatal counselling it is ...
... comes here she'll take over ' ; ' Roger would like to opt out , and leave me with my mother , but I'm grown up now ... come to stay or when the mother has been visiting her . In my own experience of postnatal counselling it is ...
Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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