![]() The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement. Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic. The experience is her own – as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother – but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed in its many variations on all women everywhere. Motherhood as Experience and Institution. ![]() “In order for all women to have real choices all along the line,” Adrienne Rich writes, “we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture.” Rich’s investigation, in this influential and landmark book, concerns both experience and institution. ![]()
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