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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... economics and practices of medicalized 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of motherhood and sexuality.¶ Birth centers have not necessarily remained as originally envisioned; nursemidwives have been replaced by obstetricians who refuse to ...
... economics and practices of medicalized 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of motherhood and sexuality.¶ Birth centers have not necessarily remained as originally envisioned; nursemidwives have been replaced by obstetricians who refuse to ...
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... economic system in which most paid women's work was done in the horizontally segregated female ghetto of service and ... economy. For the bluecollar mothers once proud of their ability to cope, finding themselves on line outside the soup ...
... economic system in which most paid women's work was done in the horizontally segregated female ghetto of service and ... economy. For the bluecollar mothers once proud of their ability to cope, finding themselves on line outside the soup ...
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... economic disadvantage, racism, the prevalence of rape and paternal incest. The woman is thus isolated from her historical context as woman; her decision for or against abortion is severed from the peculiar status of women in human ...
... economic disadvantage, racism, the prevalence of rape and paternal incest. The woman is thus isolated from her historical context as woman; her decision for or against abortion is severed from the peculiar status of women in human ...
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... economic desperation under an economic exploitation which, though less total and overtly violent than slavery, offers women minimal options both in the workplace and the home. If the right to abortion is a stepping stone toward freedom ...
... economic desperation under an economic exploitation which, though less total and overtly violent than slavery, offers women minimal options both in the workplace and the home. If the right to abortion is a stepping stone toward freedom ...
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... economic or racial oppression, seems to me today to skew the lines of vision along which we proceed to act. The other side of patriarchyascatchall is the idealization of women. White feminists have not, it seems, found it easy to ...
... economic or racial oppression, seems to me today to skew the lines of vision along which we proceed to act. The other side of patriarchyascatchall is the idealization of women. White feminists have not, it seems, found it easy to ...
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