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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... feminist terms.* Of Woman Born was both praised and attacked for what was sometimes seen as its oddfangled approach: personal testimony mingled with research, and theory which derived from both. But this approach never seemed odd to me ...
... feminist terms.* Of Woman Born was both praised and attacked for what was sometimes seen as its oddfangled approach: personal testimony mingled with research, and theory which derived from both. But this approach never seemed odd to me ...
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... Feminist Women's Health Center, founded in 1971 by Carol Downer and Lorraine Rothman, where women were taught how to do cervical selfexamination with a flashlight, mirror, and speculum. This teaching was both practical and symbolic; it ...
... Feminist Women's Health Center, founded in 1971 by Carol Downer and Lorraine Rothman, where women were taught how to do cervical selfexamination with a flashlight, mirror, and speculum. This teaching was both practical and symbolic; it ...
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... feminist origins have been dimmed along with its potential challenge to the economics and practices of medicalized childbirth and to the separation of motherhood and sexuality.¶ Birth centers have not necessarily remained as originally ...
... feminist origins have been dimmed along with its potential challenge to the economics and practices of medicalized childbirth and to the separation of motherhood and sexuality.¶ Birth centers have not necessarily remained as originally ...
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... feminists, as well as terrorists, have joined the fray, along with or including Christian fundamentalists with strong ... feminist position has been more complex, having to do with contexts, with social transformation, with the use and ...
... feminists, as well as terrorists, have joined the fray, along with or including Christian fundamentalists with strong ... feminist position has been more complex, having to do with contexts, with social transformation, with the use and ...
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... feminist movement for reproductive rights needs to be very clear in dissociating itself from the racism of “population control” and eugenics movements, and in making opposition to involuntary sterilization an integral part of its ...
... feminist movement for reproductive rights needs to be very clear in dissociating itself from the racism of “population control” and eugenics movements, and in making opposition to involuntary sterilization an integral part of its ...
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