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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... sterilization abuse, for the rights of lesbian mothers to custody of their children, for the recognition of rape, including marital rape, as an act of violence, for the recognition of sexual harassment in the workplace as sex ...
... sterilization abuse, for the rights of lesbian mothers to custody of their children, for the recognition of rape, including marital rape, as an act of violence, for the recognition of sexual harassment in the workplace as sex ...
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... sterilization an integral part of its politics.¶¶¶ As a white, middleclass, educated woman who in the late 1950s had had to plead and argue for sterilization after bearing three children, I understood at first only that sterilization on ...
... sterilization an integral part of its politics.¶¶¶ As a white, middleclass, educated woman who in the late 1950s had had to plead and argue for sterilization after bearing three children, I understood at first only that sterilization on ...
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... sterilization on demand,” with no waiting period, could and did easily turn into sterilization abuse if a woman was darkskinned, was a welfare client, lived on a reservation, spoke little or no English, was a woman whose intelligence ...
... sterilization on demand,” with no waiting period, could and did easily turn into sterilization abuse if a woman was darkskinned, was a welfare client, lived on a reservation, spoke little or no English, was a woman whose intelligence ...
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... sterilization abuse on Indian women. The spiritual and practical power of the mature Indian woman is cruelly constrained by the coercions of the United States government.******* I mention these as a few of the works that have challenged ...
... sterilization abuse on Indian women. The spiritual and practical power of the mature Indian woman is cruelly constrained by the coercions of the United States government.******* I mention these as a few of the works that have challenged ...
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... Sterilization: Some Questions and Answers (1982; Committee for Abortion Rights and against Sterilization Abuse, 17 Murray Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10007); Helen Rodriguez's comments on sterilization propaganda in Helen B ...
... Sterilization: Some Questions and Answers (1982; Committee for Abortion Rights and against Sterilization Abuse, 17 Murray Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10007); Helen Rodriguez's comments on sterilization propaganda in Helen B ...
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