Twenty contributors consider violence in the works of such acclaimed writers as Adrienne Rich, Harriet Jacobs, Virgnia Woolf, and Audre Lorde, and such too little known authors as Senegal's Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall, Lebanon's Etel Adnan, and the Jamaican Sistren Collective. The cross-cultural range of works encompasses many forms of violence, overt and covert: sexual abuse, the colonial experience, the ravages of cancer, hostility between mothers and daughters, warfare. The contributors look at the variety of responses to violence and address the costs of breaking cultural taboos against speaking out as well as the strategies women use to violate social expectations without forfeiting the chance to be heard. They show that th differences in women's lives and responses to violence can help us begin to envision a world in which violence is no longer acceptable.
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Deirdre Lashgari is Associate Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University. She is co-editor of two international anthologies of poetry by women: Women Poets of the World and The Other Voice: Twentieth Century Women's Poetry in Translation.
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Adrienne Rich, perhaps the most widely read American feminist poet of the last two decades, has devoted her career to breaking the many forms of silence that have worked to oppress women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Virginia Woolf, United States, Poppie Nongena, Time's Power, Adrienne Rich, Minnie Foster, Third World, African American, Martha Hale, Sketch of the Past, New York, Kafr El Teen, Linda Brent, Audre Lorde, Caroline Watson, Certificate of Absence, Chui Mei, Norma Rosen, Janet Lim, Jury of Her Peers, South African, Touching Evil, Alice Walker, Julia Stephen, Sherley Anne Williams New!
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Adrienne Rich, perhaps the most widely read American feminist poet of the last two decades, has devoted her career to breaking the many forms of silence that have worked to oppress women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bad stove, maternal anger, slave narrators, handsome captain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Virginia Woolf, United States, Poppie Nongena, Time's Power, Adrienne Rich, Minnie Foster, Third World, African American, Martha Hale, Sketch of the Past, New York, Kafr El Teen, Linda Brent, Audre Lorde, Caroline Watson, Certificate of Absence, Chui Mei, Norma Rosen, Janet Lim, Jury of Her Peers, South African, Touching Evil, Alice Walker, Julia Stephen, Sherley Anne Williams New!
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- Poppie Nongena: One Woman's Struggle Against Apartheid by Elsa Joubert on 11 pages
- Touching Evil by Norma Rosen on 8 pages
- A Jury Of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell on 7 pages
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions) by Harriet Jacobs on 6 pages
- Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword) by Judith Lewis Herman on 4 pages
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- Violence And the Female Imagination: Quebec's Women Writers Re-Frame Gender in North American Cultures by Paula Ruth Gilbert in Front Matter, page 77, and Back Matter
- Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) by T T. Fujitani on page 408, and Back Matter
- Radical History Review: Volume 70 by Dora Dumont on page 69
- Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women's Fictions (Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory) by Elaine Neil Orr in Back Matter
- Beyond Lacan (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by James M. Mellard in Back Matter
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