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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 revolutionized 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.… (más)
this had many interesting things but nearly every page had notes to read. I just think it was too long--298. because of all this stuff I decided not to have a child in my 20s. I am now 74. ( )
Stunning work. It raged into the world with a horrible and beautiful truth. I read it first as I was nursing my firstborn, in the 70's. Fearful territory. She may have been the first to look with clarity at the ambivalence of motherhood, coming from her own perspective as a good mother and wife of the 1950's, bearing three sons in something like 6 years, plunging into the roughening waters of feminist consciousness, coming out as a lesbian. As to the last, I have always cherished her retort to the interviewer who asked what her sons thought of her lesbianism. Said Adrienne "well, I guess you'll have to ask them". ( )
This book is a classic that needs to be understood within the context of the time it was written. Yes, things have changed--duh. One reason women are living different lives in 2010 than they were in 1970 is because of people like Adrienne Rich. "We stand on the shoulders of giants"--of those who came before us. ( )
This book was a lot more compelling and interesting than I thought it was going to be. I particularly enjoyed the sections on ancient women-centered societies and the medicalization of childbirth. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
... ma per trattar del ben ch'i vi trovai, diro dell' altre cose, ch'io v'ho scorte.
... but to treat of the good that I found there, I will tell of other things I there discerned.)
- Dante, Inferno, 1:3
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To my grandmothers Mary Gravely Hattie Rice whose lives I begin to imagine.
I dedicate this Tenth Anniversary edition to the activists working to free women's bodies from archaic and unnecessary bonds
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
All human life on the planet is born of woman.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Women, upon whom most of the burden of respect for life has been placed [i.e. the anti-choice movement], know that it is not [true throughout history that we have valued life above all]. We know too much at firsthand about the violence of the warrior, the rapist, the institutional violence of political and social systems in which we have little part, but which affect our bodies, our children, our aging parents: the violence which over centuries we have been told is the way of the world, but which we exist to mitigate and assuage.
In learning to give care to children, men would have to cease being children; the privileges of fatherhood could not be toyed with, as they now are, without an equal share in the full experience of nurture.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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 revolutionized 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.
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