I Am Your Sister

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-534148-5
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

Reihe: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities

Audre Lorde was not only a famous black poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past half century. I Am Your Sister collects her non-fiction prose from 1976 to 1990, and it is the first volume to provide a full picture of Lorde's political work (as opposed to her aesthetic work). The essays cover an impressive variety of topics: sexuality, race, gender, culture, class, parenting, disease, resistance, and power--both within the United States and across the African diaspora. While Lorde is best known as a progenitor of black feminist studies, I Am Your Sister stresses her signal influence in the creation of gay and lesbian studies. Lorde's work presaged the late 1980s shift in the academy toward the emphasis on the tight connections between race, class, gender, and sexuality--and later disability. Accordingly, the breadth of topics Lorde tackles in the various essays in I Am Your Sister capture the spirit of intersectionality that now dominates analysis in the humanities and critical social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrd

Byrd, Rudolph P.

Cole, Johnetta Betsch

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolph Byrd is Professor of American Studies and Director of the African American Studies Program at Emory University. Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College. Johnnetta Cole was the first black woman president of Spelman College. She is currently the president of Bennett College.