Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Rich, Adrienne. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780393312843.

Adrienne Richs influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. 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.