Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

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.

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/27/2021
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780393541427
ISBN10: 0393541428
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood
- Social Science | Women's Studies