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.
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9780393541427
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 330 g
Dimensions: 211 x 140 x 28 mm
Not great quality printing with a flimsy cover in grainy paper that slightly puts my teeth on edge.
But be warned! There is a second introduction in this edition by another writer (not Eula Bliss, whose introduction...
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