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Audre Lorde

This person is the author of all the works in this book, but is also present as a character in most of them, as she writes in the first person, using stories of her life experience to illustrate her points and was a black lesbian feminist poet.

Mary Daly

This person is the white feminist author of Gyn/Ecology. The white feminist perspective is seen as normative while any aberration from this norm is seen as other.

Robert Staples

This person is the author of The Myth of Black Macho: a Response to Angry Black Feminists, the article which the author responds to in Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface.

Audre Lorde's mother

This person is a complex figure in the author's life. She is both a source of strength and a source of feelings of inadequacy for the author. She was born in Grenada and...

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