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Adrienne Rich · 1978
A collection of feminist essays and literary criticism by Adrienne Rich spanning 1966–1978, examining women's writing, identity, and the politics of silence and self-knowledge through analyses of poets like Emily Dickinson, Anne Sexton, and Eleanor Ross Taylor.
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What this book knows
Women's writing and intellectual life have been systematically suppressed by patriarchy; feminist re-vision is the act of seeing that suppression clearly and writing past it.
self-and-identity
beneath the conscious craft are glimpses of the split I even then experienced between the girl who wrote poems and the girl who was to define herself by her relationships with men
LSSS-RC-026I hadn't found the courage yet to do without authorities, or even to use the pronoun 'I'—the woman in the poem is always 'she'
LSSS-RC-030obedience-and-authority
I tried for a long time to please him, or rather, not to displease him… there were other men—writers, teachers—the Man, who was not a terror or a dream but a literary master
LSSS-RC-025she was trying to sound as cool as Jane Austen, as Olympian as Shakespeare, because that is the way the men of the culture thought a writer should sound
LSSS-RC-024education-and-formation
without a growing feminist movement, the first inroads of feminist scholarship could not have been made; without the sharpening of a black feminist consciousness, black women's writing would have been left in limbo
LSSS-RC-021Teaching at City I came to know the intellectual poverty and human waste of the public school system through the marks it had left on students
LSSS-RC-041Illuminates
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