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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... kibbutz . Older children are often involved with the care and teaching of younger ones rather as if in a peasant society they were mothering younger siblings . But in the kibbutz this care is insti- tutionalized through the babies ' and ...
... kibbutz . Older children are often involved with the care and teaching of younger ones rather as if in a peasant society they were mothering younger siblings . But in the kibbutz this care is insti- tutionalized through the babies ' and ...
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... kibbutz ideal concentrated on the nature of the relationship between the whole community and its young , the hope of the future . The kibbutz started as an alternative to conventional family life with a highly diffuse and unemotional ...
... kibbutz ideal concentrated on the nature of the relationship between the whole community and its young , the hope of the future . The kibbutz started as an alternative to conventional family life with a highly diffuse and unemotional ...
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Sheila Kitzinger. women who had been brought up on a kibbutz themselves , in a certain emotional detachment from their children.12 Even so , some couples left the kibbutz on the birth of a second and third child because the mother wanted ...
Sheila Kitzinger. women who had been brought up on a kibbutz themselves , in a certain emotional detachment from their children.12 Even so , some couples left the kibbutz on the birth of a second and third child because the mother wanted ...
Contents
Mothercraft or Motherhood? | 3 |
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
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