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Adrienne Rich (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Adrienne Rich is known primarily for her poetry, but she has produced essays on writing and politics as well: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976) is an analysis of the changing meanings of childbirth and motherhood in Anglo-American culture, in which Rich draws upon personal experience as well as sources in mythology, sociology, economics, the history of medicine, and literature to develop her analysis. On Lies, Secrets, and Silences: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 (1979) is a collection of essays on women writers...

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