 Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionAdrienne Rich (Reviewed by J Zamost)
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Explores how motherhood has been institutionalized in our culture, the mother/daughter bond, mothers and sons, etc. Rich sees all women raised in this culture as psychologically crippled, disinherited and culturally bereft because they have been denied the love of strong figures of their own sex. Rich writes of her own mother as having given up a career as a pianist and composer to give her life over to the enhancement of her husband’s medical career, and of the acquiescing to his rigid rules of child-rearing.
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