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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... children or even know where they had been taken.‡‡ For the Chicana mother and cannery worker, trying to feed her children for the duration of a strike (not for higher wages but against wage reduction), evicted for falling behind in her ...
... children or even know where they had been taken.‡‡ For the Chicana mother and cannery worker, trying to feed her children for the duration of a strike (not for higher wages but against wage reduction), evicted for falling behind in her ...
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... children of preschool age living in poverty, the abused child or children in the nuclear family. An antiabortion morality that does not respect women's intrinsic human value is hypocrisy. But so is an antiabortion morality that is ...
... children of preschool age living in poverty, the abused child or children in the nuclear family. An antiabortion morality that does not respect women's intrinsic human value is hypocrisy. But so is an antiabortion morality that is ...
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... child care, or provide nourishing meals for her children.”††††† The linking of abortion rights with sterilization abuse is very powerful because it connects women's reproductive issues across lines of class and race and because it ...
... child care, or provide nourishing meals for her children.”††††† The linking of abortion rights with sterilization abuse is very powerful because it connects women's reproductive issues across lines of class and race and because it ...
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... child, while doting on her employer's blonde children. Toni Cade Bambara's story “Medley” is written in the voice of a mother “just now getting it together,” “an Ai manicurist” unfooled and unfazed by men. Doing the nails of a bigtime ...
... child, while doting on her employer's blonde children. Toni Cade Bambara's story “Medley” is written in the voice of a mother “just now getting it together,” “an Ai manicurist” unfooled and unfazed by men. Doing the nails of a bigtime ...
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... child, male child. But in reading the above comment by Gloria Joseph, Fm reminded of a poem by Bea Medicine, Lakota anthropologist: A woman of many names all kinship designations— Tuwin—aunt Conchi—grandmother Hankashi—female cousin Ina ...
... child, male child. But in reading the above comment by Gloria Joseph, Fm reminded of a poem by Bea Medicine, Lakota anthropologist: A woman of many names all kinship designations— Tuwin—aunt Conchi—grandmother Hankashi—female cousin Ina ...
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