Adrienne Cecile Rich

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood.

Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Of Woman Born

Pia Sophia

This book is such a heavy, yet necessary and thought-provoking read. It shows motherhood from a whole different perspective- gone are the assumptions that motherhood is the rosy, fluffy, ‘all-is-well-in-the-world-now’ picture society teaches us it is. Some of Rich’s anecdotes and statements might seem anti-motherhood, but once you read between the lines and actually understand what she’s talking about, it all makes sense. The thing that startles me most is that this book is more than 40 years old and still so relevant to today’s society. Scary, actually. We still have such a long way to go.

Of Woman Born Motherhood as Experience and Institution

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