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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... biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us. As I write this, the assault on women's right to safe and affordable ...
... biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us. As I write this, the assault on women's right to safe and affordable ...
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... biological mothers, sisters, or members of the extended family. From the standpoint of many Black daughters it could be: my sister, my mother; my aunt, my mother; my grandmother, my mother,****** Psychoanalysis and psychology have ...
... biological mothers, sisters, or members of the extended family. From the standpoint of many Black daughters it could be: my sister, my mother; my aunt, my mother; my grandmother, my mother,****** Psychoanalysis and psychology have ...
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... biological mother, however long and close the bond between coparent and child, that child is most likely to be assigned to the father or any surviving blood relative instead. Meanwhile, biological lesbian mothers still face homophobic ...
... biological mother, however long and close the bond between coparent and child, that child is most likely to be assigned to the father or any surviving blood relative instead. Meanwhile, biological lesbian mothers still face homophobic ...
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... Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany [New York: Monthly Review Press New Feminist Library, 1984], pp. 27196). ***** Shapiro, pp. 98103. ††††† Ibid., p. 189. ‡‡‡‡‡ Zillah Eisenstein, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy and the ...
... Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany [New York: Monthly Review Press New Feminist Library, 1984], pp. 27196). ***** Shapiro, pp. 98103. ††††† Ibid., p. 189. ‡‡‡‡‡ Zillah Eisenstein, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy and the ...
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... biological mothers. Throughout history women have helped birth and nurture each others' children. Most women have been mothers in the sense of tenders and carers for the young, whether as sisters, aunts, nurses, teachers, fostermothers ...
... biological mothers. Throughout history women have helped birth and nurture each others' children. Most women have been mothers in the sense of tenders and carers for the young, whether as sisters, aunts, nurses, teachers, fostermothers ...
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