Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

by Adrienne Rich (Author)

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  Paperback
  1977

  $3.43

  A blend of memoir and history which investigates women's role as mother. Drawing on anthropolgy, medecine, psychology, literature and her own experience, the author explores the contradictory pleasures and pains of motherhood. The author also wrote On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-78 and Blood, Bread and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-85 .