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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Frontiers A Journal of Women StudiesPublished 1 January 1978
Jane McCabe, Adrienne Rich
Citations2,142

TL;DR

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.

Abstract

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.

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Social Sciences