She glowed into love, smiled, kissed him, fondled him like a mother. The male resents this mothering in his depth. It shields the home. The conquered woman turns back as a mother to draw him in, more and more into herself, to her warm quiescent hearth, to the unborn. The hunter rebels. It is then that brutality begins. He essays violence, cruelty, because he senses himself weak before the indrawing suction of the bewifed woman.
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All of the hidden frustration and difficulties of the beleaguered American woman were brought front and center in Betty Freidman’s^([sic]) “Feminine Mystique.” There we were presented with the poor thwarted creature of American culture — the bewifed, child-bearing female living in suburbia.
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Pondering other items, like the path to a Chemical Engineering Ph.D., are Burke Baker, who took to wife one Betty Kimble back there in the Dark Ages, the same month we graduated, at Berkeley; and John Erjavec, who bewifed Julie Evans of Palatine, Ill. last June in the presence of John Bowman, Bill Schoening, and John Davis, at the University of Wisconsin.
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The possession of a daughter in our law and custom is something of great moment. Also, the custom that follows the bewifing of a daughter is of great value.
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