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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... human value to men than to women. This book was written more than ten years ago in resistance to all—but especially the last—of these ideas. I wrote it as a concrete and particular person, and in it I used concrete and particular ...
... human value to men than to women. This book was written more than ten years ago in resistance to all—but especially the last—of these ideas. I wrote it as a concrete and particular person, and in it I used concrete and particular ...
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... human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions ...
... human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions ...
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... human value is hypocrisy. But so is an antiabortion morality that is lavished upon the rights and values of the fetus, yet can condone the cynical indifference to the full spectrum of human life which is now official policy in the ...
... human value is hypocrisy. But so is an antiabortion morality that is lavished upon the rights and values of the fetus, yet can condone the cynical indifference to the full spectrum of human life which is now official policy in the ...
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... human community. Like much radicalfeminist writing of its period, this book relies heavily on the concept of patriarchy as a backstop in which all the foul balls of history end up. I tried in these pages to define patriarchy as ...
... human community. Like much radicalfeminist writing of its period, this book relies heavily on the concept of patriarchy as a backstop in which all the foul balls of history end up. I tried in these pages to define patriarchy as ...
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... humanity. And this is surely one of the lines on which, in the United States, American Indian and Black women have had a very different understanding rooted in their respective community history and values: the shared concern of many ...
... humanity. And this is surely one of the lines on which, in the United States, American Indian and Black women have had a very different understanding rooted in their respective community history and values: the shared concern of many ...
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