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whole that should involve Itself in thls responsibility.
Adrienne Rich however expresses her cyniclsm towards
collective rearlng
According to her, mass chlldcare In
patriarchy has had only two purposes, to introduce large
number of women into the labour force or to indoctrinate
future cltlzens. She stresses the fact tnat this system has
never been conceived as a means of releasing the energles of
women Into the mainstream of culture, or of changlng the
stereotyplc gender - lmages of both women and men
4.6.0. As opposed to blologlcal motherhood, where a woman
1s expected :o
has an Inc1:natlon
bear and raise her child, whether or not she
to do so, In Herland and Woman on The
Edge of Time, motherhood becomes a speclallzed craft,
antrzsted only to those wlth an aptlc-de for 1t
when mozherhood is lmposed on all women tha:
3urden
It 1s only
lt becomes a
Wlth the firm n ew that all women are not cut out
far maternal dutles, motherlng In these two utoplas 1s
asslgned only to those sulted for it
4.6.1. Whlle all women are valued fcr thelr child-bearlng
capacltles lc Eerland, chlld-ra1slr.g and educatlon 1s
+I..cF
-~---ed to those best able to provlde lt
educatlon of the children, carrled
The motherlng and
out by tralned
Speclal-sts "who are not necessarily mothers but who are
always women, 1s cruclal to the creation of a new people