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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... man or not, whether she is a mother or not. The antiabortion stand seeks to drive a single monolithic wedge into a cluster of issues such as male sexual prerogatives, prescriptive heterosexuality, women's economic disadvantage, racism ...
... man or not, whether she is a mother or not. The antiabortion stand seeks to drive a single monolithic wedge into a cluster of issues such as male sexual prerogatives, prescriptive heterosexuality, women's economic disadvantage, racism ...
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... the hope that a young male raised in a politically conscious female community would grow into a new kind of man. As is obvious from Chapter VIII of this book, I hold to such hopes. Today, after a decade of court battles for.
... the hope that a young male raised in a politically conscious female community would grow into a new kind of man. As is obvious from Chapter VIII of this book, I hold to such hopes. Today, after a decade of court battles for.
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... man's world” is the “real” world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the “great” or “liberalizing” periods of history have been the same for women as for men, that generalizations about “man ...
... man's world” is the “real” world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the “great” or “liberalizing” periods of history have been the same for women as for men, that generalizations about “man ...
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