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Theme: A child is born by Germaine Greer discusses on the matter of childbirth and childcare. She shows the differences in between the western society and the eastern society on the subject of the, pregnancy childcare and child rearing. She is of the opinion that the eastern society is better in comparison to western society. In the eastern society, the pregnant woman feels secure in pre-natal as well as post natal activities. This is hardly found in the western society. Summary: Germaine Geer in her essay A child is born discusses the state of pregnant women, different methods of having babies and compares the parents‐children relationship in modern west and traditional east societies. In traditional societies, there are different methods of having babies. These methods are extremely useful because they make having baby less frightening for the pregnant mothers. The traditional behaviors make the pregnant women forget their worries because they are helped by their husba...

Summary Marsha Traugot, a social worker who worked for the prevention of cruelty against children in her essay, The Children Who Wait describes the state of parentless children in America prior to 1960, only healthy  white infants (babies) were considered to be suitable for adoption by wealthy childless white families. A non-white family, bi‐racial and single families were not considered adoptive. Handicapped, black and bi‐racial children were never considered adoptable even by the social organizations working in this field. However, after 1960, a great change came in adoption scene in America which upgraded the human value. Various factors like black civil rights moments, women’s movement , legalization abortion , birth control , changing social values, social science research and harsh economic realities of the foster homes contributed to bring the drastic change in the field of adoption and change in people’s attitude towards marriage, there was a scarcity of white babi...

Theme: Illene Kantrov's essay Women's Business depicts the business activities performed by women. She presents her logic that Women's business was related with cosmetic items and the techniques applied for the production of goods by them were traditional. She presents Lydia Pinkham as the precursor of women's business. Other women entrepreneurs also followed the path she showed. Though they followed her path, they could hardly become as successful as Lydia. Summary: Ilene Kandrov in her essay Women’s Business paints the portraits of Lydia E. Pinkham and other business women who have been successful in American business world. The women discussed in the essay were not only business women but also involved in social service particularly in educating people about issues and problems related to women. However it was clear that their interest in making money was more important than their interest in improving society. Most of the business women used lavish an...