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Of woman born : motherhood as experience and institution / Adrienne Rich.

Title
Of woman born : motherhood as experience and institution / Adrienne Rich.
Author
Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
Publication
New York : Norton, 1995.

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Description
xxxv, 322 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"'In order for all women to have real choices all along the line, ' Ardrienne Rich writes, 'we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture.'" --Publisher description.
Subject
  • Motherhood
  • Mother and child
  • Feminism
  • Anthropology
  • Labor, Obstetric > psychology
  • Mother-Child Relations
  • Mothers > psychology
Note
  • Originally issued in 1986 as the 10th anniversary ed.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Anger and tenderness -- The "sacred calling" -- The kingdom of the fathers -- The primacy of the mother -- The domestication of motherhood -- Hands of flesh, hands of iron -- Alienated labor -- Mother and son, woman and man -- Motherhood and daughterhood -- Violence : the heart of maternal darkness.
ISBN
0393312844
OCLC
  • 32449278
  • SCSB-9965652
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library