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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... nurture the oppressor's children. (See my 1986 note to this passage, p.255.) Moreover, relying on readytohand Greek mythology, I was led to generalize that “the cathexis between mother and daughter” was endangered always and everywhere ...
... nurture the oppressor's children. (See my 1986 note to this passage, p.255.) Moreover, relying on readytohand Greek mythology, I was led to generalize that “the cathexis between mother and daughter” was endangered always and everywhere ...
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... nurture for a much longer period than other mammals, and because of the division of labor long established in human groups, where women not only bear and suckle but are assigned almost total responsibility for children, most of us first ...
... nurture for a much longer period than other mammals, and because of the division of labor long established in human groups, where women not only bear and suckle but are assigned almost total responsibility for children, most of us first ...
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... nurture each others' children. Most women have been mothers in the sense of tenders and carers for the young, whether as sisters, aunts, nurses, teachers, fostermothers, stepmothers. Tribal life, the village, the extended family, the ...
... nurture each others' children. Most women have been mothers in the sense of tenders and carers for the young, whether as sisters, aunts, nurses, teachers, fostermothers, stepmothers. Tribal life, the village, the extended family, the ...
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