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Children are viewed as a temporary constriction preventing desired experiences '
. 8 There are great contrasts between this experience and that which the new
mother passes through and her self - image in a pre - industrial society .
Children are viewed as a temporary constriction preventing desired experiences '
. 8 There are great contrasts between this experience and that which the new
mother passes through and her self - image in a pre - industrial society .
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place , to be followed very often in their turn by positive and vivid dreams of the
labour as a fulfilling and deeply rewarding experience . Expectant mothers in
peasant cultures may be apprehensive about labour but , although birth is more ...
place , to be followed very often in their turn by positive and vivid dreams of the
labour as a fulfilling and deeply rewarding experience . Expectant mothers in
peasant cultures may be apprehensive about labour but , although birth is more ...
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ose of givincono particularly trees which grow or not had regional anaesthesia ,
is a major psychosexual experience in which talking and joking would be only a
distraction , just as it would be at the height of lovemaking . Ultimately there is no
...
ose of givincono particularly trees which grow or not had regional anaesthesia ,
is a major psychosexual experience in which talking and joking would be only a
distraction , just as it would be at the height of lovemaking . Ultimately there is no
...
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Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 27 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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| Title | Women as Mothers |
| Author | Sheila Kitzinger |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Random House, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0394506510, 9780394506517 |
| Length | 239 pages |
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