Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Introduction

The collection was published in 1984 by the Crossing Press and contains fifteen essays and speeches from 1976 to 1984. Among them are “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”, “Uses of the Erotic”, “An Open Letter to Mary Daly”, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” and “The Uses of Anger”. Other pieces deal with a journey to the Soviet Union, with Grenada after the US invasion and with relations between Black women. The common thread is the demand that differences among women be acknowledged and used rather than suppressed. The book is one of the most widely taught texts of feminist theory.

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