It has been four decades since the publication of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born , but her analysis of maternity and the archetypal Mother remains a powerful critique. It was Rich who first defined the term "motherhood" as referent to a patriarchal institution that was oppressive to women. Rich proposed the use of the word "mothering" a word intended to be female-defined. It is between these two ideas, that of a patriarchal history and a feminist future,...