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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... obstetrical/gynecological profession. The movement to demedicalize childbirth—to treat it as an event in a woman's life, not as an illness—became a national one, with an increase in home births, alternative birthing practices, and the ...
... obstetrical/gynecological profession. The movement to demedicalize childbirth—to treat it as an event in a woman's life, not as an illness—became a national one, with an increase in home births, alternative birthing practices, and the ...
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... obstetrical” beds have replaced simple furnishings.# A 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 ...
... obstetrical” beds have replaced simple furnishings.# A 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 ...
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