Of Woman Born

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. " Of Woman Born" revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation.