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Of woman born : motherhood as experience and institution / Adrienne Rich ; foreword by Eula Biss ; introduction by Dani McClain

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Biss, Eula, 1977- [Verfass. eines Geleitwortes] ; McClain, Dani [Verfass. einer Einleitung]

paperback edition, reissued

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company$h, 2021

lxviii, 345 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-393-54142-7 (paperback)

2021005164

9780393541427

OCoLC: 1260186259     

HU 7293      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ759

306.874/3

Basisklassifikation: 71.21 (Familie; Verwandtschaft) <Soziologie> ; 71.33 (Frau) <Soziologie>

*Mutter ; Mutterschaft ; Feminismus      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Motherhood ; Mother and child ; Feminism

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 ma -- Motherhood and daughterhood -- Violence: the heart of maternal darkness.

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"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"--