Birthworkers often try to explain that pain and suffering are not the same thing, on the premise that ‘birth usually hurts’ doesn’t have to equal ‘people giving birth suffer.’ [The shortish version: We have the physical sensation of pain, and then we have the emotional experience of suffering, which are sometimes but not always related. [...]
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links for thought (December 2010)
A few of the more interesting or useful posts I read last month, with excerpts … from Rixa Freeze at Stand and Deliver, “Feminism & Mormonism: A Conversation with Kathryn Soper” I’ve never fit any of the typecasts that come with being an LDS woman and mother, with being a feminist, or with pursing advanced [...]