She wrote, “It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness” (p. I appreciate how Rich explores this ambivalence against the backdrop of anger and tenderness. Do they have more patience, more capacity for selflessness, and more of a sure sense of who they are? I suspect that even the women who tend to cling to institutional motherhood have those same feelings of ambivalence at times.
I often wonder if other women are happier than I am as a mother or more skilled at it. Rich also explores the theme of ambivalence. But for this to happen, the institution of motherhood must be destroyed” (p. Here’s what Rich suggests should take the place of this controlling nonsense: “The mother’s battle for her child-with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life-needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. In general, motherhood is not praised or held sacred when it isn’t white, middle-class, and patriarchal. Children are only legitimate if they have a man’s name and if that man legally controls the mother. Motherhood is ‘sacred’ so long as its offspring are ‘legitimate’” (p. “Institutionalized motherhood demands of women maternal ‘instinct’ rather than intelligence, selflessness rather than self-realization, relation to others rather than the creation of self. Women are still experiencing motherhood as institution, as a set of rules and regulations imposed by outsiders. He said, “This could have been written in 2012. I confirmed its publication in 1976 and its reprinting in 1986. As I read parts of it to my husband, he listened thoughtfully and then said, “When was this written?” I read excerpts of this book as part of my culture and politics of motherhood class, and finished the rest of it over the break between semesters. She explored her own experiences as a mother, the institution of motherhood as reinforced by patriarchy, and possible solutions to this type of motherhood that doesn’t seem to treat women as people.
In 1976, poet Adrienne Rich explored motherhood in her book Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Institution and Experience. and to make sense of what has been a difficult and confusing role for ME to handle.
This is my best attempt to summarize an academic book for future use on my comprehensive exams for my Ph.D. Note: Please do NOT be offended by this post, especially if you are a friend or a family member.
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