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On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-78
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1980
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Literary TheoryQueer PoliticsFirst-person NarrativeSocial SciencesGender IdentityGender TheoryLiterary CriticismGender StudiesDiscourse AnalysisLanguage StudiesIntellectual HistoryLiterary StudyFeminist ScholarshipIntersectionalityFeminist PerspectiveFeminist TheoryLiterary HistoryHumanitiesCultureFemale Consciousness
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.