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Readers
77/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Adrienne Rich
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
April 27, 2021
Introduced by Eula Biss, this reissue of the iconic poet and feminist's pathbreaking 1976 investigation into motherhood and womanhood offers insights that continue to speak to generations of mothers.
What The Reviewers Say
It is easy to forget how groundbreaking Rich’s first prose book was, with its blend of research, personal experience, and theory, and its exposé of the patriarchal expectation that mothers be passive, silent, self-sacrificial carers.
The autobiography [is] sketchy and scanty because of its subordinate (though controlling) position in the book.
Insistently she argues for self-determination for all women, for a choice in having children, in observing the rituals of childbirth, in determining attitudes toward child care. Dynamic, woman-centered, frequently persuasive and even disarming, this is certain to spark controversy for its uncompromising stance and its more surprising, documented findings.
