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To " mother " a child implies a continuing presence , lasting at least nine months ,
more often for years . Motherhood is earned , first through an intense physical
and psychic rite of passage pregnancy and childbirth - - then through learning to
...
To " mother " a child implies a continuing presence , lasting at least nine months ,
more often for years . Motherhood is earned , first through an intense physical
and psychic rite of passage pregnancy and childbirth - - then through learning to
...
Page xxi
... preferred to encourage . Finally , I cannot imagine having written this book
without the presence in my life of my mother , who offers a continuing example of
transformation and rebirth ; and of my sister , with and from whom FOREWORD
xxi.
... preferred to encourage . Finally , I cannot imagine having written this book
without the presence in my life of my mother , who offers a continuing example of
transformation and rebirth ; and of my sister , with and from whom FOREWORD
xxi.
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erhood by many twentieth - century women , there is a continuing thread of
unexamined emotions . The twentieth - century , educated young woman ,
looking perhaps at her mother ' s life , or trying to create an autonomous self in a
society ...
erhood by many twentieth - century women , there is a continuing thread of
unexamined emotions . The twentieth - century , educated young woman ,
looking perhaps at her mother ' s life , or trying to create an autonomous self in a
society ...
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Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution |
| Author | Adrienne Cecile Rich |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Bantam Books, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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