The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde (1979) In the 1970s, women of color and lesbians in the United States called on feminist scholars to recognize their own discriminatory practices and to analyze the intersections of racial, sexual, and gender hierarchies. At an academic feminist conference commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the lesbian poet and literature professor Audre Lorde art