Sister outsider essays and speeches

Sister Outsider presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and c...

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Main Author: Lorde, Audre (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Berkeley : Crossing Press, [2007]
Edition: Revised edition.
Series: Crossing Press feminist series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Notes from a trip to Russia
  • Poetry is not a luxury
  • The transformation of silence into language and action
  • Scratching the surface : some notes on barriers to women and loving
  • Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power
  • Sexism : an American disease in blackface
  • An open letter to Mary Daly
  • Man child : a black lesbian feminist's response
  • An interview : Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich
  • The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house
  • Age, race, class, and sex : women redefining difference
  • The uses of anger : women responding to racism
  • Learning from the 60s
  • Eye to eye : black women, hatred, and anger
  • Grenada revisited : an interim report.