Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches,9780895941411

Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches

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ISBN13: 9780895941411
ISBN10: 0895941414
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1984-04-01
Publisher(s): Crossing Pr
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Summary

The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work. Lorde is unflinching in her observations and is lucid and clarifying in her coverage of a range of essential topics.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7(6)
Notes from a Trip to Russia
13(23)
Poetry Is Not a Luxury
36(4)
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
40(5)
Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving
45(8)
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
53(7)
Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface
60(6)
An Open Letter to Mary Daly
66(6)
Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response
72(9)
An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich
81(29)
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
110(4)
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
114(10)
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
124(10)
Learning from the 60s
134(11)
Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger
145(31)
Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report
176

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