Liz Yorke is a counsellor at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of Impertinent Voices: Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Women's Writing (1991).
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`What I Know, I Know through Making Poems' Feminist Beginnings in the Early Poetry Reversing the Going Logic How Hear the Women `To Her Own Speech' Embodied Experience Passion and Politics in Of Woman Born Lesbian Identity, Compulsory Heterosexuality and `The Common "Woman"' Back to the Body, Back to Earth Concrete Experience as `The Core of Revolutionary Process' Inside and Outside, Centre and Margin, Jew and Gentile The Contradictory World of Multiple, Threshold Identity
`Liz Yorke clearly and precisely explains the ideas of Adrienne Rich's work and situates them in the history of feminist thought. However, this is no dry disputation. Yorke is alive to the creative and dynamic elements in Rich's thinking and, while not neglecting the poetry, she makes a wholly convincing case for the centrality of Rich's prose writing' - Mary Eagleton, University College of Ripon and York St John