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Experience is Everything
Here I explore my sense of the difference between the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering, a distinction first identified by Adrienne Rich in 1976 in her landmark book, Of Woman Born.
Experience is Everything
About a year ago I started searching for resources on feminism and motherhood. When I realized that a lot of my pre-motherhood feminist ideals of independence, financial autonomy, and career advancement (that had given me a sense of empowerment) were not what I was...
Creating a New Possibility of Empowered Mothering
As someone who had always found empowerment through my career and social accomplishments, it has been a major reframe to envision empowerment through mothering.
Creating a New Possibility of Empowered Mothering
Since becoming a mother almost seven years ago, I have been involved in an ongoing identity shift around newly emerging, and at times conflicting, values and roles. Recently I have become aware of the ways in which I unconsciously devalue my role as a mother. As...
Rearranged by Motherhood
I became a mother at 35 and nothing has been the same ever since. The experience of mothering has shaped me in ways I could never have predicted and I begin to describe that here.