Of Woman Born
Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Adrienne Rich author Eula Biss editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:28th May '21
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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 revolutionised 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.
ISBN: 9780393541427
Dimensions: 211mm x 140mm x 28mm
Weight: 330g
416 pages