Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393541427)

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
ISBN-10: 0393541428
ISBN-13: 9780393541427
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2021
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d