Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich
Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich
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Of Woman Born
Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Author: Adrienne Rich, Eula Biss

Narrator: Gabra Zackman, Nicole Lewis

Unabridged: 12 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Simone

This book is an essential read for anyone interested in feminist and or gender related issues. An absolute classic. Here are a few memorable excerpts: 1. "Partiarchy is the power of the fathers: a familial-social, ideological, political system in which men - by force, direct pressure, or through ritu......more

Rich details how motherhood and childbirth were subjugated as people transitioned from matriarchal or equal societies to patriarchy. She traces how patriarchal systems then drastically lowered women's role and value, and how childbirth was 'stolen' from midwives and turned into a 'medical procedure.......more

Goodreads review by Jenny

Adrienne Rich has again rearranged me. 'Of Woman Born' should be required reading for all: Rich interrogates the violence inherent in the institution of motherhood, how it infiltrates every aspect of our lives, how it limits our conception of who and what women are, and how this institution must be......more