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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... delivered woman must be isolated for 40 days till clean , and that if any women went into a church while menstruating she had to fast for three weeks . The Penitential of Archbishop Egber ( AD 735-66 ) states that ' every religious ...
... delivered woman must be isolated for 40 days till clean , and that if any women went into a church while menstruating she had to fast for three weeks . The Penitential of Archbishop Egber ( AD 735-66 ) states that ' every religious ...
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... delivered at home or in the Soweto clinics : these hospital mothers fighting to give birth were selected from the township as possibly complicated cases . Birth was very far from normal here , and it was conducted in a way I had seen ...
... delivered at home or in the Soweto clinics : these hospital mothers fighting to give birth were selected from the township as possibly complicated cases . Birth was very far from normal here , and it was conducted in a way I had seen ...
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... delivered by forceps , and in most maternity units where elective epidurals are available the forceps rate has shot up . In one London teaching hospital epidurals have increased from around 16 per cent of deliveries in 1971 to 60 per ...
... delivered by forceps , and in most maternity units where elective epidurals are available the forceps rate has shot up . In one London teaching hospital epidurals have increased from around 16 per cent of deliveries in 1971 to 60 per ...
Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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