Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780393541427
- ISBN-10: 0393541428
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: April 2021
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 416
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