Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich. Norton, 1986.
Vintage softcover. Covers show some light shelf wear with wear at corners and edges. Previous pricing sticker at bottom of back cover. Stamp of ownership on flyleaf.
"In order for all women to have real choices all along the line," Adrienne Rich writes, "we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture." Rich's investigation, in this influential and landmark book, concerns both 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. (from back cover).