From its original publication in 1976 to the present, Of Woman Born has revolutionized how women think about motherhood and their own liberation. Exploring her own experience as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother, Adrienne Rich combines wide-ranging research in anthropology, feminist theory, literature, and psychology with unsparing self-interrogation. The result is a work that, as National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Eula Biss writes in a stirring new foreword, "lays bare the cultural and medical and economic practices that define motherhood, and exposes how our everyday experience of mothering is shaped by this enduring institution." With a contextualizing introduction from Dani McClain, a reporter and author whose work centers on reproductive health, race, and activism, Of Woman Born resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written. Book jacket.