Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
- ISBN-10
- 039386734X
- ISBN-13
- 9780393867343
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-27
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Adrienne Rich
Description
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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