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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... hospitals. Professional midwives were initially at the forefront of this movement, along with women who wanted to experience birth among family and friends with the greatest possible autonomy and choice in the conduct of their labor. To ...
... hospitals. Professional midwives were initially at the forefront of this movement, along with women who wanted to experience birth among family and friends with the greatest possible autonomy and choice in the conduct of their labor. To ...
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... hospital in Oklahoma, one out of every four women admitted was sterilized—194 in a single year. (In 1981, 53.6 percent of teaching hospitals in North America still made sterilization a requirement for abortion.) Suits such as those ...
... hospital in Oklahoma, one out of every four women admitted was sterilized—194 in a single year. (In 1981, 53.6 percent of teaching hospitals in North America still made sterilization a requirement for abortion.) Suits such as those ...
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... hospital administrators, obstetricians, gynecologists, and a range of familyplanning and also feminist organizations. The National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights Action League took the position that the ...
... hospital administrators, obstetricians, gynecologists, and a range of familyplanning and also feminist organizations. The National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights Action League took the position that the ...
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