Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

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Norton, 1995 - Family & Relationships - 322 pages
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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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Stunning work. It raged into the world with a horrible and beautiful truth. I read it first as I was nursing my firstborn, in the 70's. Fearful territory. She may have been the first to look with ... Read full review

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This book is a classic that needs to be understood within the context of the time it was written. Yes, things have changed--duh. One reason women are living different lives in 2010 than they were in ... Read full review

About the author (1995)

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award-winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

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TitleOf Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
W. W. Norton
Women's studies
AuthorAdrienne Rich
Edition10, reprint, reissue
PublisherNorton, 1995
ISBN0393312844, 9780393312843
Length322 pages
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Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood
  
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