Of Woman Born :Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Of Woman Born :Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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27 April, 2021
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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 revolutionised 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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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780393541427 |
| ISBN10 | 0393541428 |
| Number Of Pages | 416 |
| Item Weight | 323 g |
| Product Dimensions | 140 x 211 x 25 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | WW Norton & Co |
| Format | paperback |
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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. Eula Biss is the author of three acclaimed books, including On Immunity. She lives in Illinois.