Of Woman BornIn 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