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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... death or incapacity of the 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 ...
... death or incapacity of the 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 ...
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... death in midwifeattended home birth?. Lay midwifery is currently legal or unregulated in thirtysix states. (Janet Isaacs Ashford, “California Should Legalize Lay Midwives,” San Jose Mercury, March 31, 1986.) ** On September 9, 1984, the ...
... death in midwifeattended home birth?. Lay midwifery is currently legal or unregulated in thirtysix states. (Janet Isaacs Ashford, “California Should Legalize Lay Midwives,” San Jose Mercury, March 31, 1986.) ** On September 9, 1984, the ...
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... Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 133; Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (New York: Random House, 1981), p. 205; Michael Craton with Garry Greenland, Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and ...
... Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 133; Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (New York: Random House, 1981), p. 205; Michael Craton with Garry Greenland, Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and ...
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... death, through which I entered the open ground of middle age. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events. But for a long time, I avoided this journey back into the years of ...
... death, through which I entered the open ground of middle age. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events. But for a long time, I avoided this journey back into the years of ...
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