Women, Feminist Identity, and Society in the 1980's: Selected PapersMyriam Díaz-Diocaretz, Iris M. Zavala The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in specific forms of identity on the other. The essays in this volume explore language, gender, mass media, sexuality, class and social change, women s identity as Blacks and in the Third World as well as the nature of domination, feminine criticism and female creativity. The volume opens with a challenging question by the feminist poet Adrienne Rich, Who is We? |
Contents
Foreword | 1 |
Notes Toward a Politics of Location | 7 |
Female Desire and Sexual Identity | 25 |
Black NorthAmerican Women Poets in the Semiotics of Culture | 37 |
Latin American Countries | 63 |
Racism in Everyday Experiences of Black Women | 81 |
CONCLUDING REMARKS | 127 |
CONTRIBUTORS NOTES | 137 |
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Los estudios ingleses. Situación actual y perspectivas de futuro Francisco Fernández Limited preview - 1999 |