Adrienne Rich, ‘Notes toward a Politics of Location’ (1984)In this essay, Rich revisits a previous w
Adrienne Rich, ‘Notes toward a Politics of Location’ (1984)In this essay, Rich revisits a previous work, ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’, questioning her broad brushstrokes and false universals. ‘Why not admit it, get it said, so we can get on to the work to be done, back down to earth again? […] To come to terms with the circumscribing nature of (our) whiteness. Marginalized though we have been as women, as white and Western makers of theory, we also marginalize others because our lived experience is thoughtlessly white […]’ -- source link
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