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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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1978
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Feminist InquiryWoman BornCultural StudiesSocial SciencesWomen's StorytellingGender IdentityFeminist ResearchUniversal ImportanceGender StudiesFeminist IdentityWomen StudiesFeminist Literary TheoryFeminist ScholarshipFeminist PerspectiveMaternal HealthFeminist SciencePersonal MaterialsFeminist TheoryFeminist PhilosophyHumanitiesFeminist Rhetorical TheoryLived ExperienceFeminist Method
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.