In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and
feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political
institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience--as a
woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother--she finds the act of mothering
to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood
as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A "powerful blend of research,
theory, and self-reflection" (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of
Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their
own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics
Circle Award-winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much
wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.