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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... midwives were initially at the forefront of this movement, along with women who 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 ...
... midwives were initially at the forefront of this movement, along with women who 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 ...
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... midwife and supportive obstetrician, find that while the early impetus of women's liberation had given support to her choices in the seventies, a society increasingly obsessed with family life and personal solutions now gave her a great ...
... midwife and supportive obstetrician, find that while the early impetus of women's liberation had given support to her choices in the seventies, a society increasingly obsessed with family life and personal solutions now gave her a great ...
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... midwifery is currently legal or unregulated in thirtysix states. (Janet Isaacs Ashford, “California Should Legalize Lay Midwives,” San Jose Mercury, March 31, 1986.) ** On September 9, 1984, the New York Times ran as the cover story of ...
... midwifery is currently legal or unregulated in thirtysix states. (Janet Isaacs Ashford, “California Should Legalize Lay Midwives,” San Jose Mercury, March 31, 1986.) ** On September 9, 1984, the New York Times ran as the cover story of ...
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... midwife for Chapter VI. John Benedict, my editor, contributed a close, honestly responsive reading, and many suggestions which helped me to clarify the structure of the book; he more than once said the right words at the right time, and ...
... midwife for Chapter VI. John Benedict, my editor, contributed a close, honestly responsive reading, and many suggestions which helped me to clarify the structure of the book; he more than once said the right words at the right time, and ...
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