Best of
Gender
1976
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Adrienne Rich - 1976
The experience is her own - as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother - but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed in its many variations on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.One of our most distinguished poets, ADRIENNE RICH was born in Baltimore in 1929. Over the last forty years she has published more than seventeen volumes of poetry and five books of nonfiction prose, including Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Blood, Bread, and Poetry; and What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. She has received numerous awards, including the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Lambda Book Award, the National Book Award, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in California.
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault - 1976
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
Marina Warner - 1976
Alone Of All Her Sex: The Myth And The Cult Of The Virgin Mary, by Warner, Marina
Literary Women
Ellen Moers - 1976
Included are discussions of Jane Austen, George Sand, Colette, Simone Weil, and Virginia Woolf.
Women of Iron and Velvet: French Women Writers After George Sand
Margaret Crosland - 1976
Draws attention to the struggles of women to enter the mainstream of French literature since 1876 and the special qualities of these French women writers