childbearer

But this all, as airs said to oska, as only that childbearer might blogas well sidesplit?

Finnegans Wake 2006

While I concede these are examples of the harsh extremes of traditional marriage, and certainly not exemplary of male-female marriage as a whole, in modern society the essential economic hunter-gatherer provider-childbearer roles of the genders are not that relevant - or useful - any more.

What’s missing from Elizabeth’s argument 2004

In such circumstances mankind declares that it is advantageous for men to be occupied away from home, and that woman's place is the home because woman is the childbearer.

The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

Such a defence of feminine privileges would be quite as "logical" as the contemporary masculine defence of men's privileges on the ground that woman's place is the home because woman is the childbearer.

The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

"For the vast bulk of humanity, probably for generations to come, the instinctive antagonism of the human childbearer to reckless destruction of that which she has at so much cost produced, will be necessary to educate the race to any clear conception of the bestiality and insanity of war."

Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915

With Ward's view Olive Schreiner agrees, saying: "We have no certain proof that it is so at present, but woman's long years of servitude and physical subjection, and her experience as childbearer and protector of infancy, may be found in the future to have endowed her ... with an exceptional width of human sympathy and instinctive comprehension." [

Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934

The name came to designate the woman's personality as childbearer, and more generally her inner essence or self, as "genius" came to designate the male essence. [

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877