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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

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By Adrienne Rich — 1995

Adrienne Rich’s influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. 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 on all women everywhere. See more...

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