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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... role, a womb, a pair of hands or a back or a set of fingers; to participate fully in the decisions of our workplace, our community; to speak for ourselves, in our own right. Most of the labor in the world is done by women: that is a ...
... role, a womb, a pair of hands or a back or a set of fingers; to participate fully in the decisions of our workplace, our community; to speak for ourselves, in our own right. Most of the labor in the world is done by women: that is a ...
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... role played by the “grandmothers”—mature and elder women—both in extended family life and as leaders of resistance. “Mothers are responsible for the economic, social and ritual knowledge of their daughters. . . . Grand mothers hold a ...
... role played by the “grandmothers”—mature and elder women—both in extended family life and as leaders of resistance. “Mothers are responsible for the economic, social and ritual knowledge of their daughters. . . . Grand mothers hold a ...
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... roles, with models of independence, selfsufficiency, selfconfidence, and cultural and individual diversity within lesbian households. She urges a research directed away from the “homogenization” of lesbian mothering into the ...
... roles, with models of independence, selfsufficiency, selfconfidence, and cultural and individual diversity within lesbian households. She urges a research directed away from the “homogenization” of lesbian mothering into the ...
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... Role Model.” The “working mothers” in question were young professional women with briefcases. All were white. Though the article endorsed their decision to work while raising children, it nagged at the familiar question of possible ...
... Role Model.” The “working mothers” in question were young professional women with briefcases. All were white. Though the article endorsed their decision to work while raising children, it nagged at the familiar question of possible ...
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