Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
- ISBN-10
- 0393348105
- ISBN-13
- 9780393348101
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-04-17
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Adrienne Rich
Description
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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