Of Woman Born
Motherhood as Experience and Institution
28 May 2021
Description
The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.
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 revolutionised 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.
Also By: Adrienne Rich 
Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968
Paperback, 1969
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems, 1954-1962
Paperback, 1967
"The risk this book quietly takes, and impressively fulfills, is no less than to get life said.... Newly freed from the metrical conventions of her earlier books, Adrienne Rich has lost none of her...
Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Paperback, 2019
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
Selected Poems: 1950-2012
Paperback, 2018
Sixty years of poems from a National Book Award winner and pioneering writer, activist and intellectual.
Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Hardback, 2018
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
