GWST 2513 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-15: Sociology Of The Family, Working Mother, Feminist Theory
2 Dec 2017
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Of a woman born- adrienne rich ; ch 1-2. Women"s status as child bearers have been made into a major fact of her life. Barren childless terms used to negate and further identity. For most of us women provided the continuity and stability also rejections and refusals of our early lives. Potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children. Institution which aims at ensuring that potential and all women shall remain under male control, this institution has been a keystone of the most diverse social and political systems. Sweeping floor this is what women have always done . Pregnant feeling not guilty this is what women have always done . Motherhood is more fundamental than tribalism or nationalism. The female body is impure, corrupt, the site of discharges, bleedings, dangerous to masculinity, a source of moral and physical contamination, the devil"s getaway.
