Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich
$16.95
Publication Date: April 17th, 1995
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393312843
Pages:
352

Description

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. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.

About the Author

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.