On Lies, Secrets, and Silence
- Authors
- Rich, Adrienne
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton Company
- Tags
- poetry , writing , feminism
- ISBN
- 9780393348118
- Date
- 1979-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.63 MB
- Lang
- en
At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."