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Motherloss

In This Feature

by Yael Flusberg
White Butterflies

by Lynn Davidman
Can You Be a Family Without a Mother?

A sociologist ask girls about their early losses 

by Francine Cournos, M.D.
The Shame of Having No Mother

by Karen Paul-Stern
Mothering Without a Map

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Summer 1999

Understanding motherloss: what happens to a girl when her mother dies young.  Daniel Belasco on his normal childhood in a lesbian household. What the conservative movement owes its women.

Also in this issue

  • Noga, Israel’s Feminist Magazine Summer 1999
  • Motherloss Summer 1999

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