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She also feels anxious at the lack of privacy she has when she breast-feeds her new-born son in her road-side shack.
Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan Caroline Gluck 2010
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Or the obsession to separate the sexes could produce ridiculous fatwas in Egypt, such as that a man and woman can work in the same office space only if the woman, in order to establish a maternal relation, breast-feeds the man.
Mustafa Akyol: The Shariah Was Made For Man -- And Not Man For The Shariah Mustafa Akyol 2011
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She also feels anxious at the lack of privacy she has when she breast-feeds her new-born son in her road-side shack.
Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan Caroline Gluck 2010
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She also feels anxious at the lack of privacy she has when she breast-feeds her new-born son in her road-side shack.
Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan Caroline Gluck 2010
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Or the obsession to separate the sexes could produce ridiculous fatwas in Egypt, such as that a man and woman can work in the same office space only if the woman, in order to establish a maternal relation, breast-feeds the man.
Mustafa Akyol: The Shariah Was Made For Man -- And Not Man For The Shariah Mustafa Akyol 2011
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She also feels anxious at the lack of privacy she has when she breast-feeds her new-born son in her road-side shack.
Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan Caroline Gluck 2010
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Workplace Issues Breast-Feeding Bias The knowledge that a woman breast-feeds her children leads people to view her as less competent in the workplace and less good at math, a study shows.
Week in Ideas Christopher Shea 2011
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Azur is the blue-eyed son of a powerful medieval nobleman while Asmar is the dark-skinned son of the Azur’s nanny Jenane, who raises and breast-feeds both boys.
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Beneath a blue sky filled with giant billowing clouds, this young woman breast-feeds her infant on board her sampan.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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Breast-feeding can inhibit ovulation, and thus can work as a natural form of child spacing, but the way in which a woman breast-feeds is the primary factor in determining when fertility returns.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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