On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity." |
Contents
Writing as ReVision 1971 | |
Teaching Language in Open Admissions 1972 | |
The Antifeminist Woman 1972 | |
The Poems of Eleanor | |
Two Columns 1973 | |
19281974 1974 | |
The Power of Emily Dickinson 1975 | |
Some Notes on Lying 1975 | |
The Common World of Women 1976 | |
The Meaning of Our Love for Women Is What We Have Constantly to Expand | |
Works of a Common Woman 1977 | |
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