Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
By: Audre Lorde
4.63
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From The Guardian. Oct. 4, 2017. R.O. Kwon "Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, wri…
Want to Read"whatever was hidden out of fear could always be used either against the children or ourselves — one imperfect but useful argument for honesty. The knowledge of fear can help make us free."-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematised oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the space of the dehumanised inferior."-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us — that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it. And we must fight that inserted piece of self-destruction that lives and flourishes like a poison inside of us, unexamined until it makes us turn upon ourselves in each other."-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feeling enough to keep women around in order to exercise it in the service of men, but which fears this same depth too much to examine the possibility of it within themselves. So women are maintained at a distant/inferior position to be psychically milked, much the same way ants maintain colonies of aphids to provide a life-giving substance for their masters"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
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1. The Dream of a Common Language
By: Adrienne Rich
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Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
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2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
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3. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
4. Women, Culture, and Politics
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of her speeches and writings which address the political and social changes of the pas… read more
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5. Wallflower at the Orgy
By: Nora Ephron
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
From her Academy Award--nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is… read more
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6. Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women
By: Steve Martin , Nora Ephron
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7. A Map to the Door of No Return
By: Dionne Brand
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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8. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
By: bell hooks
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9. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
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In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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10. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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11. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
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12. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
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4.43
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
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"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
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4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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14. Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
By: Audre Lorde
4.63
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
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20. Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
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"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
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