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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Adrienne Rich. ADRIENNE RICH OF WOMAN BORN MOTHERHOOD AS EXPERIENCE AND INSTITUTION W ∙ W ∙ NORTON & COMPANY • New York ∙ London To my grandmothers Mary Gravely Hattie Rice whose lives I.
Adrienne Rich. ADRIENNE RICH OF WOMAN BORN MOTHERHOOD AS EXPERIENCE AND INSTITUTION W ∙ W ∙ NORTON & COMPANY • New York ∙ London To my grandmothers Mary Gravely Hattie Rice whose lives I.
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... experiences of women, including my own, and also of some men. At the time I began it, in 1972, some four or five years into a new politicization of women, there was virtually nothing being written on motherhood as an issue. There was ...
... experiences of women, including my own, and also of some men. At the time I began it, in 1972, some four or five years into a new politicization of women, there was virtually nothing being written on motherhood as an issue. There was ...
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... experience, I had not felt the other edge of the policies in question. The sterilization issue did bring home to me how race and class make a difference of even the most basic shared experiences among women—the experience of having our ...
... experience, I had not felt the other edge of the policies in question. The sterilization issue did bring home to me how race and class make a difference of even the most basic shared experiences among women—the experience of having our ...
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