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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... 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 Notes Index . . . ma per trattar del ben ch'i vi.
... 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 Notes Index . . . ma per trattar del ben ch'i vi.
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... women in other spheres and the pressures on women to validate themselves in maternity deserved exploration. I wanted to examine motherhood—my own included—in a social context, as embedded in a political institution: in feminist terms ...
... women in other spheres and the pressures on women to validate themselves in maternity deserved exploration. I wanted to examine motherhood—my own included—in a social context, as embedded in a political institution: in feminist terms ...
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... women.)§§§§ A storm of opposition came from hospital administrators, obstetricians, gynecologists, and a range of familyplanning and also feminist organizations. The National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights ...
... women.)§§§§ A storm of opposition came from hospital administrators, obstetricians, gynecologists, and a range of familyplanning and also feminist organizations. The National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights ...
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... Motherhood and Daughterhood.” There, I was trying to scan the territory using instruments then most familiar to me: my own experience, literature by white and middleclass AngloSaxon women (Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Doris Lessing ...
... Motherhood and Daughterhood.” There, I was trying to scan the territory using instruments then most familiar to me: my own experience, literature by white and middleclass AngloSaxon women (Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Doris Lessing ...
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... maternal love expresses itself in action to the last, in a context so basic in its stringencies that it allows for no “female world of love and ritual.” In Zami, Audre Lorde depicts a West Indian immigrant mother raising three daughters ...
... maternal love expresses itself in action to the last, in a context so basic in its stringencies that it allows for no “female world of love and ritual.” In Zami, Audre Lorde depicts a West Indian immigrant mother raising three daughters ...
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