Books : Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
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by: Audre Lorde
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9781580911863
ISBN: 1580911862
Label: Crossing Press
Manufacturer: Crossing Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 190
Publication Date: 2007-08
Publisher: Crossing Press
Sales Rank: 26011
Studio: Crossing Press
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Book Description:
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 change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, offering a message of struggle but also of hope--one that still resonates with us after more than 20 years. This commemorative edition is, in Lorde's own words, a call to 'never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. . . .'
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Rating: - Fantastic Book
I wish I'd read this book 30 years ago when it came out. It's still as relevant today as it was then--and in many ways just as revolutionary. I'm not black, but it applies to anyone who does not run with the crowd and has a strong desire to look at things honestly in spite of the personal discomfort involved. Things need to change in the US--we need to see ourselves as in this thing together(life, the "American experiment"),and this book drives that home.
Rating: - Essays, speeches and so much more..........
Audre Lorde is a black woman, a feminist, a lesbian, mother of two children, daughter of Grenadian immigrants, and a cancer survivor-yet none of those descriptives paints the complete picture of who she is, or how her words will undoubtedly transform all of those who read them. "Sister Outsider" is a collection of writings-including reprinted magazine articles and speeches- that spans 15 years and includes the famous riposte to Mary Daly after Lorde read "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism" ... Read More
Rating: - Thoughts on sister outsider
If you are looking for some consiousness raising, inspiring, and honest words - then this is the book that will bring that to you.I highly recommend it.
Rating: - Still Saving Lives
"I have come to work on you like a drug or a chisel" wrote the late Audre Lorde. Her passing created a hollow space in my soul that is now full again, thanks to Audre Lorde. Despite the fact that 'Sister Outsider' is assigned in virtually every women's studies and gender studies 101, do not think it is dry, ultimately a mere 'academic' book. Audre Lorde lived in and for a radical poetics and a radical pedagogy. If you have not discovered her work yet, please get a hold of a copy. It might save your life the ... Read More
Rating: - Incredible essays
No poems this time around, folks: prose that gets under your skin and into your head. The late, great Audre Lorde, known primarily for her poetry over the years, wrote what is one of the most compelling books on sociology, sexuality, racism and the nature of human character and existence in the last 20 years. Her charges are damning, but dashed with more than a spoonful of hope when appropriate, and it is impossible to walk away from this book unchanged.
No New Age-isms, no agendas...just common ... Read More
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