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Download e-book for kindle: Motherhood: Power and Oppression by Marie Porter, Patricia Short, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera

By Marie Porter, Patricia Short, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera

ISBN-10: 0889614547

ISBN-13: 9780889614543

ISBN-10: 1435604075

ISBN-13: 9781435604070

In feminism, the establishment of mothering/motherhood has been a hugely contested region in the way it pertains to the oppression of ladies. As Adrienne wealthy articulated in her vintage 1976 booklet Of lady Born: Motherhood as event and establishment, even though motherhood as an establishment is a male-defined web site of oppression, women's personal studies of mothering can still be a resource of energy. This quantity examines 4 destinations in which motherhood is at the same time skilled as a website of oppression and of strength: embodiment, illustration, perform and separation. Motherhood comprises mental, old, sociological, literary and cultural methods to inquiry and quite a lot of disciplinary views ? qualitative, quantitative, corporeal, criminal, spiritual, fictional, mythological, dramatic and motion learn. This wealthy assortment not just covers quite a lot of subject material but in addition illustrates methods of doing feminist study and perform.

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Despite this, in the medical journals, doctors aĴempted to depict positive experiences. One woman was recorded as feeling “easy and delightful”—though perhaps this was the morphine (Haynes 371). Another claimed she felt 28 The Kindest Cut? “quite well” and asked for a chop to eat—although by the following day she was dead (Chambers 30). During this period, caesarean sections had a horrifying maternal mortality rate and it is sometimes difficult to understand the perseverance of the medical profession.

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