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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... movement in ferment, a climate of ideas, which had barely existed five years earlier. It seemed to me that the devaluation of women in other spheres and the pressures on women to validate themselves in maternity deserved exploration. I ...
... movement in ferment, a climate of ideas, which had barely existed five years earlier. It seemed to me that the devaluation of women in other spheres and the pressures on women to validate themselves in maternity deserved exploration. I ...
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... movement to empower women. Over the past fifteen years a vigorous and widespread women's healthcare movement has grown up, challenging a medical industry in which women are the majority both as clients and as health workers (most in ...
... movement to empower women. Over the past fifteen years a vigorous and widespread women's healthcare movement has grown up, challenging a medical industry in which women are the majority both as clients and as health workers (most in ...
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... movement narrowly concerned with pregnancy and birth which does not ask questions and demand answers about the lives of children, the priorities of government; a movement in which individual families rely on consumerism and educational ...
... movement narrowly concerned with pregnancy and birth which does not ask questions and demand answers about the lives of children, the priorities of government; a movement in which individual families rely on consumerism and educational ...
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... movements necessary. It was not the Women's Liberation movement that had failed to “solve anything.” There had been a counterrevolution, and it had absorbed her. Enough changes did not occur for the 61 percent of poor adults in 1984 who ...
... movements necessary. It was not the Women's Liberation movement that had failed to “solve anything.” There had been a counterrevolution, and it had absorbed her. Enough changes did not occur for the 61 percent of poor adults in 1984 who ...
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... movement is also a movement about personhood (as is every liberation movement). The living, politicized woman claims to be a person whether she is attached to a family or not, whether she is attached to a man or not, whether she is a ...
... movement is also a movement about personhood (as is every liberation movement). The living, politicized woman claims to be a person whether she is attached to a family or not, whether she is attached to a man or not, whether she is a ...
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