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STRATHERN, Marilyn. Necessidade de país, necessidade de mães. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 1995, vol.03, n.02, pp.303-329. ISSN 1806-9584.

Based on a recent case in England - the request by virgin women for artificial insemination- the Mele draws a companson wrth the famous anthropological controversy of so-called virgin birth In focus are 'rhe reiations considered necessary In lhe Anglo-Saxon tradition and by extension in the West as a whole for motherhood fatherhood and parenthood.