Full name: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Author: Audre Lorde Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Lesbian, Feminism, Essays, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780895941411 9781580911863 0895941414 1580911862

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference - difference according to sex, race, and economic status. The title Sister Outsider finds its source in her poetry collection The Black Unicorn (1978). These poems and the essays in Sister Outsider stress Lorde's oft-stated theme of continuity, particularly of the geographical and intellectual link between Dahomey, Africa, and her emerging self. Similar books: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Deals With the Devil by Pearl Cleage This Bridge Called My Back by Cherrie Moraga Subject to Debate by Katha Pollitt Ain't I a Woman by Bell Hooks In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne Rich We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie But Some of Us Are Brave by Gloria T. Hull Reasonable Creatures by Katha Pollitt Not That Bad by Roxane Gay Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley Listen Up by Barbara Findlen Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen Home Girls by Barbara Smith Talking Back by Bell Hooks