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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... young woman with a college education could experiment sexually using the pill, enter law school, move in with a boyfriend, postpone childbearing with abortion—legal and safe—as a backup. By 1986, married and working as an attorney, she ...
... young woman with a college education could experiment sexually using the pill, enter law school, move in with a boyfriend, postpone childbearing with abortion—legal and safe—as a backup. By 1986, married and working as an attorney, she ...
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... young. I treated such differences insubstantially, if at all, in my chapter “Motherhood and Daughterhood.” There, I was trying to scan the territory using instruments then most familiar to me: my own experience, literature by white and ...
... young. I treated such differences insubstantially, if at all, in my chapter “Motherhood and Daughterhood.” There, I was trying to scan the territory using instruments then most familiar to me: my own experience, literature by white and ...
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... young, and the hope that a young male raised in a politically conscious female community would grow into a new kind of man. As is obvious from Chapter VIII of this book, I hold to such hopes. Today, after a decade of court battles for.
... young, and the hope that a young male raised in a politically conscious female community would grow into a new kind of man. As is obvious from Chapter VIII of this book, I hold to such hopes. Today, after a decade of court battles for.
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... young people trying to survive, dependent on strangers.¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Between a patriarchal State and the patriarchal family as guardians of children, there is little to choose. But there is another possibility: the emergence of a collective ...
... young people trying to survive, dependent on strangers.¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Between a patriarchal State and the patriarchal family as guardians of children, there is little to choose. But there is another possibility: the emergence of a collective ...
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... 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 “psychological effects” on children. †† See James Reston ...
... 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 “psychological effects” on children. †† See James Reston ...
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