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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... 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 experiences of women ...
... 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 experiences of women ...
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... men about “parenting,” about “male mothering,” the luxury of caring for a baby whose mother chose to work outside the home. By 1980 a new wave of conservatism—political, religious, deeply hostile to the gains made by women in the 1970s ...
... men about “parenting,” about “male mothering,” the luxury of caring for a baby whose mother chose to work outside the home. By 1980 a new wave of conservatism—political, religious, deeply hostile to the gains made by women in the 1970s ...
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... 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, above all ...
... 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, above all ...
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... men fully aware that this is not an isolated issue or a simplistic one, that the availability of safe abortion on demand is merely one of the issues on which we must come together, that the stakes are not abortion per se, but the power ...
... men fully aware that this is not an isolated issue or a simplistic one, that the availability of safe abortion on demand is merely one of the issues on which we must come together, that the stakes are not abortion per se, but the power ...
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... men. Doing the nails of a bigtime cardsharp or scatsinging in the shower with her boyfriend, her declared agenda “is still to make a home for my girl.” In the title story of Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive, the mother, a ...
... men. Doing the nails of a bigtime cardsharp or scatsinging in the shower with her boyfriend, her declared agenda “is still to make a home for my girl.” In the title story of Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive, the mother, a ...
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