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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... wanted to experience birth among family and friends with the greatest possible autonomy and choice in the conduct of their labor. To the extent that the alternativechildbirth movement has focused on birth as a single issue,
... wanted to experience birth among family and friends with the greatest possible autonomy and choice in the conduct of their labor. To the extent that the alternativechildbirth movement has focused on birth as a single issue,
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... labor and obstetrical high tech, for equal pay for equal work, for the legalization of free and safe elective abortion, for the prevention of sterilization abuse, for the rights of lesbian mothers to custody of their children, for the ...
... labor and obstetrical high tech, for equal pay for equal work, for the legalization of free and safe elective abortion, for the prevention of sterilization abuse, for the rights of lesbian mothers to custody of their children, for the ...
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... labor, nursing, elementaryschool teaching, behindthecounter selling by women with less education and fewer choices. And the glossy magazines did not ask those women about their feelings of conflict, their problems with childcare. Rather ...
... labor, nursing, elementaryschool teaching, behindthecounter selling by women with less education and fewer choices. And the glossy magazines did not ask those women about their feelings of conflict, their problems with childcare. Rather ...
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... labor, not to be used merely as an instrument, a role, a womb, a pair of hands or a back or a set of fingers; to participate fully in the decisions of our workplace, our community; to speak for ourselves, in our own right. Most of the labor ...
... labor, not to be used merely as an instrument, a role, a womb, a pair of hands or a back or a set of fingers; to participate fully in the decisions of our workplace, our community; to speak for ourselves, in our own right. Most of the labor ...
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