On lies, secrets, and silence : selected prose, 1966-1978 /
In 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 Ri...
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New York :
W.W. & Norton & Company,
[1979]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: On history, illiteracy, passivity, violence, and women's culture
- The tensions of Anne Bradstreet (1966)
- When we dead awaken : writing as re-vision (1971)
- Teaching language in open admissions (1972)
- The antifeminist woman (1972)
- Woman observing, preserving, conspiring, surviving : the poems of Eleanor Ross Taylor (1972)
- Jane Eyre : the temptations of a motherless woman (1973)
- Caryatid : two columns (1973). Vietnam and sexual violence ; Natalya Gorbanevskaya
- Anne Sexton : 1928-1974 (1974)
- Toward a woman-centered university (1973-74)
- Vesuvius at home : the power of Emily Dickinson (1975)
- Women and honor : some notes on lying (1975)
- Motherhood in bondage (1976)
- "It is the lesbian in us--" (1976)
- Conditions for work : the common world of women (1976)
- Husband-right and father-right (1977)
- The meaning of our love for women is what we have constantly to expand (1977)
- Claiming an education (1977)
- Taking women students seriously (1978)
- Power and danger : works of a common woman (1977)
- Motherhood : the contemporary emergency and the quantum leap (1978)
- Disloyal to civilization : feminism, racism, gynephobia (1978).