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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... childbirth, botched illegal abortions, needless caesareans, involuntary sterilizations, individual encounters with arrogant and cavalier physicians, these were never mere anecdotes, but testimony through which the neglect and abuse of ...
... childbirth, botched illegal abortions, needless caesareans, involuntary sterilizations, individual encounters with arrogant and cavalier physicians, these were never mere anecdotes, but testimony through which the neglect and abuse of ...
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... childbirth and to the separation of motherhood and sexuality.¶ Birth centers have not necessarily remained as originally envisioned; nursemidwives have been replaced by obstetricians who refuse to accept clients on welfare; expensive ...
... childbirth and to the separation of motherhood and sexuality.¶ Birth centers have not necessarily remained as originally envisioned; nursemidwives have been replaced by obstetricians who refuse to accept clients on welfare; expensive ...
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... Childbirth [Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1983], p. 119). # See Catherine Olsen, InHospital Birth Centers in Perspective (B.A. thesis, Board of Studies in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1981). In April 1986 the ...
... Childbirth [Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1983], p. 119). # See Catherine Olsen, InHospital Birth Centers in Perspective (B.A. thesis, Board of Studies in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1981). In April 1986 the ...
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... childbirth—then through learning to nurture, which does not come by instinct. A man may beget a child in passion or by rape, and then disappear; he need never see or consider child or mother again. Under such circumstances, the mother ...
... childbirth—then through learning to nurture, which does not come by instinct. A man may beget a child in passion or by rape, and then disappear; he need never see or consider child or mother again. Under such circumstances, the mother ...
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