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Review: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionUser Review - Rebekah - GoodreadsI only made it to the half way point in this book. I may finish, but I'm not sure yet. While this book is praised by many feminists, many of whom I have read, I am not loving the tone Rich takes when ... Read full review Review: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionUser Review - Jan Priddy - GoodreadsThis is a well-researched exploration of the psychology of motherhood, and how female biological role as creators has been co-opted, exploited, and perverted by patrimony. I wish I'd read it when it ... Read full review Related books
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7 other sections not shown Common terms and phrasesabortion Adrienne Rich anger baby Bachofen become biological breast Briffault Brigitte Jordan castration century chil child child-care childbirth consciousness Cora Sandel created culture daugh daughter death dren early economic emotional Erich Neumann existence experience father fear feel felt female body feminine feminist force forceps Freud giving birth Goddess guilt hand human husband Ibid images imagine infant infanticide institution of motherhood Jane kind labor lives male Margaret Margaret Mead marriage Mary Daly masculine maternal means menstrual menstrual taboo ment midwife midwifery misogyny moth mother Mysteries myth natural Neumann never nurture obstetrical obstetrician pain patriarchal penis perceived physical physician powerless pregnancy prepatriarchal psychic rape relationship Robert Briffault role seems sense sexual Shulamith Firestone Simone de Beauvoir simply social society sons spirit suffering taboo tion violence wife woman women write York young Bibliographic information
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