Because I just received Sister Outsider in the mail!!! Lorde criticised feminists of the 1960s, from the National Organization for Women to Betty Friedans The Feminine Mystique, for focusing on the particular experiences and values of white middle-class women. Lorde identified issues of class, race, age, gender and even health, this last was added as she battled cancer in her later years, as being fundamental to the female experience. She argued that, although the gender difference has received all the focus, these other differences are also essential and must be recognised and addressed. Lorde, it is written, puts her emphasis on the authenticity of experience. She wants her difference acknowledged but not judged; she does not want to be subsumed into the one general category of woman.[23] This theory is today known as intersectionality.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:24:58 +0000
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