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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... rape, including marital rape, as an act of violence, for the recognition of sexual harassment in the workplace as sex discrimination, for affirmative action, for an overall healthcare system responsive to women, for changes in the ...
... rape, including marital rape, as an act of violence, for the recognition of sexual harassment in the workplace as sex discrimination, for affirmative action, for an overall healthcare system responsive to women, for changes in the ...
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... rape and paternal incest. The woman is thus isolated from her historical context as woman; her decision for or against abortion is severed from the peculiar status of women in human history.## The antiabortion movement trivializes ...
... rape and paternal incest. The woman is thus isolated from her historical context as woman; her decision for or against abortion is severed from the peculiar status of women in human history.## The antiabortion movement trivializes ...
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... rape, sexual betrayal, familial incest, total lack of support for the unmarried mother, poverty, failure of attempts at birth control, and ignorance or unavailability of birthcontrol possibilities. Abortion can be an act of economic ...
... rape, sexual betrayal, familial incest, total lack of support for the unmarried mother, poverty, failure of attempts at birth control, and ignorance or unavailability of birthcontrol possibilities. Abortion can be an act of economic ...
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... rape, and then disappear; he need never see or consider child or mother again. Under such circumstances, the mother faces a range of painful, socially weighted choices: abortion, suicide, abandonment of the child, infanticide, the ...
... rape, and then disappear; he need never see or consider child or mother again. Under such circumstances, the mother faces a range of painful, socially weighted choices: abortion, suicide, abandonment of the child, infanticide, the ...
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... rape is a form of mass terrorism, for the victims of rape are chosen indiscriminately, but the propagandists for male supremacy broadcast that it is women who cause rape by being unchaste or in the wrong place at the wrong time—in ...
... rape is a form of mass terrorism, for the victims of rape are chosen indiscriminately, but the propagandists for male supremacy broadcast that it is women who cause rape by being unchaste or in the wrong place at the wrong time—in ...
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