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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... feel only what we believe they ought to feel, to recognize only certain others as human. We teach the boy to hate and scorn the places in himself where he identifies with women; we teach the girl that there is only one kind of womanhood ...
... feel only what we believe they ought to feel, to recognize only certain others as human. We teach the boy to hate and scorn the places in himself where he identifies with women; we teach the girl that there is only one kind of womanhood ...
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... feel about staying home with children. Corporate daycare may soon become a multimilliondollar service industry.§§§§§§§ If we think of the healthcare or educational systems in this country as possible models, we know that these are ...
... feel about staying home with children. Corporate daycare may soon become a multimilliondollar service industry.§§§§§§§ If we think of the healthcare or educational systems in this country as possible models, we know that these are ...
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... feel strong enough, and unambivalent enough in my love for my children, so that I could dare to return to a ground which seemed to me the most painful, incomprehensible, and ambiguous I had ever traveled, a ground hedged by taboos ...
... feel strong enough, and unambivalent enough in my love for my children, so that I could dare to return to a ground which seemed to me the most painful, incomprehensible, and ambiguous I had ever traveled, a ground hedged by taboos ...
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... feel it was worth reading. Finally, Simone de Beauvoir and Shulamith Firestone created pioneering feminist insights to which I shall always stand in debt. Needless to say, I owe much to many people unnamed here. No one whom I thank ...
... feel it was worth reading. Finally, Simone de Beauvoir and Shulamith Firestone created pioneering feminist insights to which I shall always stand in debt. Needless to say, I owe much to many people unnamed here. No one whom I thank ...
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