Women's Studies 2220E Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mari Matsuda, Patricia J. Williams, Lee Maracle
16 Sep 2016
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Audre lorde: the master"s tools will never dismantle the master"s house. Reading is a speech from the new york university institute for arts and humanities. Points out the flaws of the conference and the academic arrogance of conference goers that differences between women don"t need to be examines. She was invited to the only panel at the conference where black feminists and lesbians were represented - pointing to a lack of representation in the conference as a whole. Talks about how there is a large discrepancy between the papers being presented and the actual representation at the conference. This shows the discrepancy between theory and practice, in theory the conference should be full of representation but in reality this was not the case and lorde called that fact out. Discusses the idea of maternity being a patriarchal idea and the that this is the only social power open to women.
