This interweaving of the social and the bodily aspects of experience tells against any absolute duality of biology and society, and so suggests a more integrated and holistic form of understanding. Woman's work in the domestic sphere involves the development of skills which acknowledge concreteness, qualitative difference and the basis materialities and necessities of life, often demeaned in the wider cultural value-system, and shunned by men. Women's bodily experiences of menstruation, lactation, coitus and childbirth give them a less strong sense of their bodily boundaries than is the case for men, and so make possible a greater sense of continuity with the world around them. Finally, in childbearing and upbringing women's reproductive activity is quite different from the male engagement with material production. Reproduction involves a transition from a foetus experienced as part of one's own body to the formation of an independent being. The process is one which engages many different and unique layers of experience and relatedness.
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