Synopsis
A landmark anthology of writings by women of color confronting the racism, classism, and exclusions within feminism itself.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workA feminism that speaks only for white, middle-class women erases those who live at the intersections of race, class, and sexuality.
It insists that real liberation must begin from the lives of the multiply marginalized, not from a single, abstracted woman.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with bell hooks, Feminist Theory.
Reading note
Read it as a chorus of essays, poems, and testimony; the form is part of the political argument.
Best paired with
bell hooks, Feminist Theory