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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... 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 themselves not just poor but desperate and, increasingly, homeless. For ...
... 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 themselves not just poor but desperate and, increasingly, homeless. For ...
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... daughter and fiercely determined to support her daughter's aspirations in a world which wants her daughter to be nothing but a domestic worker. Pauline Breedlove, in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, has herself been so damaged by ...
... daughter and fiercely determined to support her daughter's aspirations in a world which wants her daughter to be nothing but a domestic worker. Pauline Breedlove, in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, has herself been so damaged by ...
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... daughters in the alien world of Harlem, U.S.A.; she is strict, selfcontained, loyal to her husband, unaffectionate save at the time of her daughter's first menstruation. It is her house that the daughter must leave to become a poet and ...
... daughters in the alien world of Harlem, U.S.A.; she is strict, selfcontained, loyal to her husband, unaffectionate save at the time of her daughter's first menstruation. It is her house that the daughter must leave to become a poet and ...
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... . I still seek my mother who knew no fame, no notoriety, who shelled shrimps for pennies a day .... She wrote some English, some Chinese and she wept after the birth of each daughter. She is the poet who saw and didn't see me.¶¶¶¶¶¶
... . I still seek my mother who knew no fame, no notoriety, who shelled shrimps for pennies a day .... She wrote some English, some Chinese and she wept after the birth of each daughter. She is the poet who saw and didn't see me.¶¶¶¶¶¶
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... daughters. . . . Grand mothers hold a special position because they pass on the clan and the lineage as well as the mythology and ceremonies. . . . Relationships of power, authority and influence are structured along matrilineal lines ...
... daughters. . . . Grand mothers hold a special position because they pass on the clan and the lineage as well as the mythology and ceremonies. . . . Relationships of power, authority and influence are structured along matrilineal lines ...
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