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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

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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childrens
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medium · 352 pages

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