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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... sexual and reproductive decisions, and the more general empowering of women. If this movement began with women ... sexuality. In learning to know her vulva and cervix and trace their changes through the menstrual cycle, a woman became ...
... sexual and reproductive decisions, and the more general empowering of women. If this movement began with women ... sexuality. In learning to know her vulva and cervix and trace their changes through the menstrual cycle, a woman became ...
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... sexuality.¶ Birth centers have not necessarily remained as originally envisioned; nursemidwives have been replaced by ... sexual harassment in the workplace as sex discrimination, for affirmative action, for an overall healthcare system ...
... sexuality.¶ Birth centers have not necessarily remained as originally envisioned; nursemidwives have been replaced by ... sexual harassment in the workplace as sex discrimination, for affirmative action, for an overall healthcare system ...
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... sexual, to separate sexuality from procreation, to have charge over our procreative capacities. Allowing the “discrete act” of abortion to be treated as the real issue, some advocates have fallen back on the barren ground of arguing ...
... sexual, to separate sexuality from procreation, to have charge over our procreative capacities. Allowing the “discrete act” of abortion to be treated as the real issue, some advocates have fallen back on the barren ground of arguing ...
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... sexual and procreative choice will catalyze enormous social transformations (and I believe this), I also believe that this can only happen hand in hand with, neither before nor after, other claims which women and certain men have been ...
... sexual and procreative choice will catalyze enormous social transformations (and I believe this), I also believe that this can only happen hand in hand with, neither before nor after, other claims which women and certain men have been ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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