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Will Never Dismantle The Master's House Summary
The following is a response paper to the text “The Master’s Tool Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House”, by Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian feminist. She was also a writer who fought in the Civl Rights Movement. This text was written in 1984, eight years before her death and it was an essay answering to an event that took place in a conference in New York. The essay analyzes the role of minorities in the Academia and reflects about the concept of sorority and intersectionality in feminism. One of the points of the text that I found most interesting was her claim that sorority and the bonds created between women are the only way for empowerment. In a patriarchal world where women are taught to compete with each other it is very
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