ISBN:
9780393541427
Language:
English
Pages:
lxviii, 345 Seiten
Edition:
Norton paperbook edition
DDC:
306.874/3
Keywords:
Motherhood
;
Mother and child
;
Feminism
;
Mutter
;
Mutterschaft
;
Feminismus
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
