Home Girls
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Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology is a collection of Black lesbian and Black feminist writing, edited by Barbara Smith. The anthology was first published in 1983 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, and was reissued by Rutgers University Press in 2000 [1].
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[edit] History
The book grew out of Conditions (magazine)'s November 1979 issue, (Conditions 5; the Black Women's Issue), originally edited by Barbara Smith and Lorraine Bethel. Conditions 5 was "the first widely distributed collection of Black feminist writing in the U.S."[1]
[edit] Contributors
- Cheryl L. Clarke
- Michelle Cliff
- Barbara Smith
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Jewelle Gomez
- June Jordan
- Alice Walker
- Audre Lorde
- Luisah Teish
- Toi Derricotte
and others...
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press 1983 p1