On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Adrienne Rich
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Sexism, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Gender roles, Literature, Violence, Feminism, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women’s issues, Oppression, Vietnam War, Women, Creative process, Men, Women’s movement, Women’s rights
Form and Content
Adrienne Rich’s On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 is a collection of twenty-two essays, some of which appeared earlier in such journals as Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women’s Culture, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and Heresies: A Feminist Magazine of Art and Politics. Others have served as introductions to books, and a few are previously unpublished talks. In a 1979 review of the work, literary critic Ellen Moers noted a misleading title, given its hint of “whining and whimpering,” believing that...
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