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Book

Sister outsider : essays and speeches

Call Number

  • 814 L867 2007 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

Revised edition.

Publication Information

Berkeley, Calif. : Crossing Press, c2007.

Physical Description

190 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes

Originally published: 1984.

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.

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