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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... Fathers IV The Primacy of the Mother V The Domestication of Motherhood VI Hands of Flesh, Hands of Iron Alienated Labor Mother and Son, Woman and Man IX Motherhood and Daughterhood X Violence: The Heart of Maternal Darkness Afterword ...
... Fathers IV The Primacy of the Mother V The Domestication of Motherhood VI Hands of Flesh, Hands of Iron Alienated Labor Mother and Son, Woman and Man IX Motherhood and Daughterhood X Violence: The Heart of Maternal Darkness Afterword ...
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... father or any surviving blood relative instead. Meanwhile, biological lesbian mothers still face homophobic prejudice in any custody challenge. Sandra Pollack notes that much research on lesbian mothering has come out of the struggle ...
... father or any surviving blood relative instead. Meanwhile, biological lesbian mothers still face homophobic prejudice in any custody challenge. Sandra Pollack notes that much research on lesbian mothering has come out of the struggle ...
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... father to daughter or brother to sister, sometimes with the mother's denial or passive collaboration; there has been childbattering as well as womanbattering; also, particularly with teenagers, extreme parental rejection leading to the ...
... father to daughter or brother to sister, sometimes with the mother's denial or passive collaboration; there has been childbattering as well as womanbattering; also, particularly with teenagers, extreme parental rejection leading to the ...
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... father” a child suggests above all to beget, to provide the sperm which fertilizes the ovum. To “mother” a child implies a continuing presence, lasting at least nine months, more often for years. Motherhood is earned, first through an ...
... father” a child suggests above all to beget, to provide the sperm which fertilizes the ovum. To “mother” a child implies a continuing presence, lasting at least nine months, more often for years. Motherhood is earned, first through an ...
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... fathers played an important part in our early childhood rarely remember them for their patient attendance when we were ill, their doing the humble tasks of feeding and cleaning us; we remember scenes, expeditions, punishments, special ...
... fathers played an important part in our early childhood rarely remember them for their patient attendance when we were ill, their doing the humble tasks of feeding and cleaning us; we remember scenes, expeditions, punishments, special ...
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