Léa-Morgane Peuron’s Reviews > A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering > Status Update

“How, Locke asked, could a ‘soul’ be transmitted into an ‘unborn embryo’ just by a father doing ‘his part in the act of generation’? A woman nourished her child into being over nine months, ‘in her own body out of her own substance’. All a man had done was ejaculate.”