| Description |
xv, 280 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Transgressing boundaries
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Transgressing boundaries.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: create your own fire: Audre Lorde and the tradition of black radical thought / Rudolph P. Byrd -- The transformation of silence into language and action -- Sexism: an American disease in blackface -- Sadomasochism: not about condemnation: an interview with Audre Lord / Susan Leigh Starr -- I am your sister: black women organizing across sexualities -- Apartheid U.S.A. -- Turning the beat around: lesbian parenting 1986 -- A burst of light: living with cancer -- Eva's man by Gayl Jones: a review -- Self-definition and my poetry -- Introduction: Movement in black by Pat Parker -- My words will be there -- Foreword to the English edition of Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche frauen auf den spuren ihrer geschichte -- Preface to a new edition of Need: A chorale for black woman voices -- Poet as teacher-human as poet-teacher as human -- Poetry makes something happen -- My mother's mortar -- Difference and survival: an address at Hunter College -- The first black feminist retreat: July 6, 1977 -- When will the ignorance end? Keynote speech at the national third world gay and lesbian conference, October 13, 1979 -- An address delivered as part of the "litany of commitment" at the March on Washington, August 27, 1983 -- Commencement address: Oberlin College, May 29, 1989 -- There is no hierarchy of oppression -- What is at stake in lesbian and gay publishing today: the Bill Whitehead award ceremony, 1990 -- Is your hair still political? -- Audre Lord: my shero, my teacher, my sister friend / Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Audre's voice / Alice Walker -- Lorde: the imagination of justice / bell hooks -- Remembering Audre Lorde / Gloria I. Joseph -- Epilogue: bearing witness: the legacy of Audre Lorde / Beverly Guy-Sheftall. |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Feminism. |
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Lesbianism.
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Lesbianism. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Lesbianism. |
| Added Author |
Byrd, Rudolph P.
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Cole, Johnnetta B.
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Guy-Sheftall, Beverly.
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| ISBN |
9780195341485 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0195341481 hardcover alkaline paper |
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