Product Description

Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.

Originally released in 1981 This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays criticism interviews testimonials poetry and visual art the collection explores as coeditor Cherr?e Moraga writes the complex confluence of identitiesrace class gender and sexualitysystemic to women of color oppression and liberation.

Reissued here nearly thirty-five years after its inception the fourth edition contains an extensive new introduction by Moraga along with a previously unpublished statement by Gloria Anzald?a. The new edition also includes visual artists whose work was produced during the same period as Bridge including Betye Saar Ana Mendieta and Yolanda L?pez as well as current contributor biographies. Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism one that can effectively adapt to and help inform an understanding of the changing economic and social conditions of women of color in the United States and throughout the world.

??Immense is my admiration for the ongoing dialogue and discourse on feminism?? Indigenous feminism?? the defining discussions in women of color movements and the broader movement. I have loved this book for thirty years?? and am so pleased we have returned with our stories?? words?? and attributes to the growing and resilient movement.?? ? Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe)?? Executive Director?? Honor the Earth

Praise for the Third Edition

??This Bridge Called My Back ?? dispels all doubt about the power of a single text to radically transform the terrain of our theory and practice. Twenty years after its publication?? we can now see how it helped to untether the production of knowledge from its disciplinary anchors?and not only in the field of women??s studies. This Bridge has allowed us to define the promise of research on race?? gender?? class and sex