Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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Motherhood as Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich. exhaustively footnoted her book , creating the impres- sion ... created by women , this is a powerful and an imaginative response to the faces we see aggrandized on our TV screens ...
Motherhood as Experience and Institution Adrienne Rich. exhaustively footnoted her book , creating the impres- sion ... created by women , this is a powerful and an imaginative response to the faces we see aggrandized on our TV screens ...
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... created woman , created continuing exis- tence . Spiritualized into a divine being , she was the source of vegetation , fruition , fertility of every kind . Whether she bore children or not , as potter and weaver she created the first ...
... created woman , created continuing exis- tence . Spiritualized into a divine being , she was the source of vegetation , fruition , fertility of every kind . Whether she bore children or not , as potter and weaver she created the first ...
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... created a largeness of possibility , a scope for original thought and activism , above all a new sense of mutual aims and sharing among women ; that we are living on the edge of immense changes which we ourselves are creating . In ...
... created a largeness of possibility , a scope for original thought and activism , above all a new sense of mutual aims and sharing among women ; that we are living on the edge of immense changes which we ourselves are creating . In ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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