 We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose) but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain,...  The Twentieth Century: A People's History - Page 268by Howard Zinn - 2009 - 512 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Wendy Martin - 1984 - 286 pages
...but destructive masculinity. Of Woman Born concludes with a visionary injunction: We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bring forth not only children (if and as we choose)... | |
 | Jane Roberta Cooper - 1984 - 390 pages
...Woman Bom: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976), Rich urges her readers to . . . imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose)... | |
 | Nancy J. Chodorow - 1989 - 300 pages
...change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. . . We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world, women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose),... | |
 | Maggie Humm - 1992 - 444 pages
...and machine, virgin wilderness to be exploited and assembly-line turning out life. We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose)... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 pages
...and machine, virgin wilderness to be exploited and assembly-line turning out life. We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose)... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1996 - 504 pages
...matriarchal utopias." And again, she had concluded with a call for an ineffable newness: "We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose)... | |
 | Marlene A. Schiwy - 1996 - 388 pages
...back our own bodily experience and begin to "think through the body," claiming, We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose)... | |
 | Jeffrey A. Gauthier - 1997 - 260 pages
...and machine, virgin wilderness to be exploited and assembly line turning out life. We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. . . .Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new... | |
 | Jeanne Cortiel - 1999 - 280 pages
...and machine, virgin wilderness to be exploited and assembly-line turning out life. We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body - Adrienne Rich (Of Woman Born, 285) Introduction to Part Two Kristeva's delineation of Western feminism... | |
 | Patrice DiQuinzio - 1999 - 300 pages
...to human society than the seizing of the mcans of production bv workers. . . . fW]c need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body" I1976: 290, 292I. These comments indicate several ways in which Rich's attempt to distinguish the experience... | |
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