Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Author | : Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780393867343 |
ISBN-13 | : 039386734X |
Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.