Of woman born: motherhood as experience and institution |
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User Review - jarvenpa - LibraryThingStunning work. It raged into the world with a horrible and beautiful truth. I read it first as I was nursing my firstborn, in the 70's. Fearful territory. She may have been the first to look with ... Read full review
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Contents
Anger and Tenderness l | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Of woman born: motherhood as experience and institution |
| Author | Adrienne Cécile Rich |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Bantam Books, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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