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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Of Woman Born cover

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