Table of Contents

`What I Know, I Know through Making Poems′
Feminist Beginnings in the Early Poetry
Reversing the Going Logic
How Hear the Women `To Her Own Speech′
Embodied Experience
Passion and Politics in Of Woman Born
Lesbian Identity, Compulsory Heterosexuality and `The Common "Woman"′
Back to the Body, Back to Earth
Concrete Experience as `The Core of Revolutionary Process′
Inside and Outside, Centre and Margin, Jew and Gentile
The Contradictory World of Multiple, Threshold Identity

About the Author

Liz Yorke is a counsellor at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of Impertinent Voices: Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Women′s Writing (1991).

Reviews

`Liz Yorke clearly and precisely explains the ideas of Adrienne Rich′s work and situates them in the history of feminist thought. However, this is no dry disputation. Yorke is alive to the creative and dynamic elements in Rich′s thinking and, while not neglecting the poetry, she makes a wholly convincing case for the centrality of Rich′s prose writing′ - Mary Eagleton, University College of Ripon and York St John