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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... physical cycles, more capable of decisionmaking, and less dependent on the “experts” of the obstetrical/gynecological profession. The movement to demedicalize childbirth—to treat it as an event in a woman's life, not as an illness ...
... physical cycles, more capable of decisionmaking, and less dependent on the “experts” of the obstetrical/gynecological profession. The movement to demedicalize childbirth—to treat it as an event in a woman's life, not as an illness ...
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... the slipperyslope argument that in countenancing the killing of fetuses we will go straight on to killing the old, the mentally retarded, the physically handicapped*** But the imbalance between concern for women and concern.
... the slipperyslope argument that in countenancing the killing of fetuses we will go straight on to killing the old, the mentally retarded, the physically handicapped*** But the imbalance between concern for women and concern.
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... physical caring for themselves and each other. There exists not simply a nearly twodecadesold political movement of women, but a movement of women's selfeducation and health education which has created a wealth of resources. The ...
... physical caring for themselves and each other. There exists not simply a nearly twodecadesold political movement of women, but a movement of women's selfeducation and health education which has created a wealth of resources. The ...
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... physical spaces or the political concerns of the community. At bedrock, the argument was between the objection to “giving energy” to males, however young, and the hope that a young male raised in a politically conscious female community ...
... physical spaces or the political concerns of the community. At bedrock, the argument was between the objection to “giving energy” to males, however young, and the hope that a young male raised in a politically conscious female community ...
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... physical motherhood is so visible and dramatic, men recognized only after some time that they, too, had a part in generation. The meaning of “fatherhood” remains tangential, elusive. To “father” a child suggests above all to beget, to ...
... physical motherhood is so visible and dramatic, men recognized only after some time that they, too, had a part in generation. The meaning of “fatherhood” remains tangential, elusive. To “father” a child suggests above all to beget, to ...
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