Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Author(s): Adrienne Rich
The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice,now for a new generation.
In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience--as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother--she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A "powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection" (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.
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- : W W Norton & Company
- : *Norton agency titles
- : 0.340194
- : 01 May 2021
- : 1.01 Inches X 5.43 Inches X 8.24 Inches
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- : JF
- : 416
- : 306.8/743
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Adrienne Rich