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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... pain go away the past be not so† The question of what we do want beyond a “safe space” is crucial to the differences between the individualistic telling with no place to go and a collective movement to empower women. Over the past ...
... pain go away the past be not so† The question of what we do want beyond a “safe space” is crucial to the differences between the individualistic telling with no place to go and a collective movement to empower women. Over the past ...
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... pain and loneliness from botched illegal abortions or selfabortions. Poor women will suffer most and have the highest mortality. Racketeers of abortion will make thousands of dollars, and conscientious practitioners willing to risk ...
... pain and loneliness from botched illegal abortions or selfabortions. Poor women will suffer most and have the highest mortality. Racketeers of abortion will make thousands of dollars, and conscientious practitioners willing to risk ...
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... painful and divisive issue in the 1970s was that of sons. Many lesbian communities struggled as to the place of male children, of whatever age or beyond a certain age, in the actual physical spaces or the political concerns of the ...
... painful and divisive issue in the 1970s was that of sons. Many lesbian communities struggled as to the place of male children, of whatever age or beyond a certain age, in the actual physical spaces or the political concerns of the ...
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... mother faces a range of painful, socially weighted choices: abortion, suicide, abandonment of the child, infanticide, the rearing of a child branded “illegitimate,” usually in poverty, always outside the law. In some Foreword.
... mother faces a range of painful, socially weighted choices: abortion, suicide, abandonment of the child, infanticide, the rearing of a child branded “illegitimate,” usually in poverty, always outside the law. In some Foreword.
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... pain and anger that I would have preferred to think of as long since resolved and put away. I could not begin to ... painful, incomprehensible, and ambiguous I had ever traveled, a ground hedged by taboos, mined with falsenamings. I did ...
... pain and anger that I would have preferred to think of as long since resolved and put away. I could not begin to ... painful, incomprehensible, and ambiguous I had ever traveled, a ground hedged by taboos, mined with falsenamings. I did ...
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