Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionW. W. Norton & Company, 1995 M04 17 - 352 pages Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance. |
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... Black domestic worker and community organizer, taking in her unemployed daughter and grandchildren to her tiny apartment. For the many others who, under the 1980s cuts in programs for mothers and children, and rising unemployment, found ...
... Black domestic worker and community organizer, taking in her unemployed daughter and grandchildren to her tiny apartment. For the many others who, under the 1980s cuts in programs for mothers and children, and rising unemployment, found ...
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... they yet remained childless or had very few children. After emancipation the birthrate increased.‡‡‡ Angela Davis emphasizes that although “Black women have been aborting themselves since the earliest days of slavery,” abortion has not.
... they yet remained childless or had very few children. After emancipation the birthrate increased.‡‡‡ Angela Davis emphasizes that although “Black women have been aborting themselves since the earliest days of slavery,” abortion has not.
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... Black, Chicana, poor white, and Puerto Rican women. A thirtyyear policy under the U.S. Agency for International Development resulted in the sterilization of 35 percent of Puerto Rican women of childbearing age.### Between 1973 and 1976 ...
... Black, Chicana, poor white, and Puerto Rican women. A thirtyyear policy under the U.S. Agency for International Development resulted in the sterilization of 35 percent of Puerto Rican women of childbearing age.### Between 1973 and 1976 ...
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... Black Feminist Statement” you can see Black women working both to separate out and to reconnect the battle fronts of class, race, and sex.‡‡‡‡‡” Patriarchy is a concrete and useful concept. Whether it is considered as a phenomenon ...
... Black Feminist Statement” you can see Black women working both to separate out and to reconnect the battle fronts of class, race, and sex.‡‡‡‡‡” Patriarchy is a concrete and useful concept. Whether it is considered as a phenomenon ...
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... Black nurse, I tried to blur that relationship into the motherdaughter relationship. But a personalized “understanding” did not prevent me from gliding over the concrete system within which Black women have had to nurture the ...
... Black nurse, I tried to blur that relationship into the motherdaughter relationship. But a personalized “understanding” did not prevent me from gliding over the concrete system within which Black women have had to nurture the ...
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