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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... function . This is very different from the family operating as an economic unit as it did in the eighteenth century , when in the rural family all hands were put to work , young and old , and the survival of the family depended on the ...
... function . This is very different from the family operating as an economic unit as it did in the eighteenth century , when in the rural family all hands were put to work , young and old , and the survival of the family depended on the ...
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... function in a vacuum , produce great stress on the marriage , defines one of them as the whole period when the children are at school . She discovered that children from six to fourteen ' have an especially distressing effect on the mar ...
... function in a vacuum , produce great stress on the marriage , defines one of them as the whole period when the children are at school . She discovered that children from six to fourteen ' have an especially distressing effect on the mar ...
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... function rests entirely with midwives . THE MIDWIFE - WITCH The history of midwifery goes back to and merges with ... functions , but one , for the right balance which is the foundation of health is itself wholly dependent on an ...
... function rests entirely with midwives . THE MIDWIFE - WITCH The history of midwifery goes back to and merges with ... functions , but one , for the right balance which is the foundation of health is itself wholly dependent on an ...
Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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