Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches

by LORDE, GERALDINE AUDRE

• ISBN13: 9780895941411
• ISBN10: 0895941414
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1984-04-01
• Publisher: Crossing Pr

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