In a 1985 letter to her longtime friend and fellow feminist Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich wrote, "And I feel so strongly that we need to do this more, put our lives on paper for each other, not just over the airwaves, and maybe if I write back now it can continue. I too feel as ...
One of those influential women, author Adrienne Rich, published an essay that talks about how women are treated differently. In the essay, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as a Re-vision”, Rich argues that a stereotypical and prejudiced male society represses women. She demonstrates these views...
This politics of renaming becomes a central preoccupation of the love poems, an agenda already vouched by Rich in her essay "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" (1972).Gayatri Balakrishnan