In making our choices, we must address the pain of daughters who felt betrayed when their mothers were politicized by feminism in the 1970s, and we must reject the mother-blaming endemic in current apolitical non-contextual literary critical strategies.Īdrienne Rich (Baltimore, 1929), autora y feminista norteamericana, se gradua del Radcliffe College y recibe el Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, que implica la publicación de A Change of World, el primero de sus varios libros de poesía, en 1951. Feminist cultural workers are gatekeepers in our choices of texts to include in syllabi, to review, and as subjects of papers for professional meetings, and as editors choosing texts for anthologies, we have both personal and political responsibilities to ourselves and to real mothers raising daughters in the patriarchy and real daughters learning to survive as women in the patriarchy. As I prepare a second volume, choosing from the additional 150 I have since discovered, I re-examine the criteria used to make the first set of choices and question whether those criteria will serve again. women writers about relationships between mothers and daughters was an aesthetically, politically, and personally demanding challenge. Choosing 18 stories from 100 written between 18 by U.S.
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