{"product_id":"of-woman-born-motherhood-as-experience-and-institution-9780393541427","title":"Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution","description":"In \u003cem\u003eOf Woman Born\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eOf Woman Born\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRich, Adrienne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAdrienne Rich\u003c\/strong\u003e (1929-2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award-winning \u003cem\u003eDiving into the Wreck\u003c\/em\u003e, and more than a half-dozen of prose.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiss, Eula:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eEula Biss\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of three acclaimed books, including \u003cem\u003eOn Immunity\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Illinois.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697154035986,"sku":"9780393541427","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80b8a107-35ee-4038-87e5-88c37b6fd3fa.jpg?v=1734295587","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/of-woman-born-motherhood-as-experience-and-institution-9780393541427","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}