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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... Domestication of Motherhood VI Hands of Flesh, Hands of Iron Alienated Labor Mother and Son, Woman and Man IX Motherhood and Daughterhood X Violence: The Heart of Maternal Darkness Afterword Notes Index . . . ma per trattar del ben ch'i vi.
... Domestication of Motherhood VI Hands of Flesh, Hands of Iron Alienated Labor Mother and Son, Woman and Man IX Motherhood and Daughterhood X Violence: The Heart of Maternal Darkness Afterword Notes Index . . . ma per trattar del ben ch'i vi.
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... 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 masculine bias of the social sciences and the ...
... 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 masculine bias of the social sciences and the ...
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... violent than slavery, offers women minimal options both in the workplace and the home. If the right to abortion is a stepping stone toward freedom, it can be so only along with other kinds of steppingstones, other kinds of action. And ...
... violent than slavery, offers women minimal options both in the workplace and the home. If the right to abortion is a stepping stone toward freedom, it can be so only along with other kinds of steppingstones, other kinds of action. And ...
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... violent context of racism. Gloria I. Joseph, who has done pioneering studies on Black motheranddaughterhood, amplifies Ladner in finding that Black females are socialized ... in early life to become strong, independent women who because ...
... violent context of racism. Gloria I. Joseph, who has done pioneering studies on Black motheranddaughterhood, amplifies Ladner in finding that Black females are socialized ... in early life to become strong, independent women who because ...
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... violence, social control, genocide. The power of difference is the power of the very plenitude of creation, the exhilarating variance of nature. Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in ...
... violence, social control, genocide. The power of difference is the power of the very plenitude of creation, the exhilarating variance of nature. Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in ...
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