Volume 23, Number 15 · September 30, 1976
Myths for Mothers
By Helen Vendler
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Rich
Norton, 318 pp., $8.95
These mixed motives—to enlarge 'feminist theory' and to express a personal experience of a fateful kind—account for the title of Adrienne Rich's book. Motherhood as experience appears in autobiographical episodes interspersed through much longer reflections attempting to analyze motherhood as a social institution. It is impossible to discuss either the autobiography or the analysis without raising the problem of partisan writing.
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