- Home Girls
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology is a collection of Black
lesbian andBlack feminist writing, edited byBarbara Smith . The anthology was first published in 1983 by , and was reissued byRutgers University Press in 2000 [http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Home_Girls_196.html ] .History
The book grew out of
Conditions (magazine) 's November 1979 issue, (Conditions 5; the Black Women's Issue), originally edited byBarbara Smith andLorraine Bethel . "Conditions 5" was "the first widely distributed collection ofBlack feminist writing in the U.S." [Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press 1983 p1]Contributors
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Cheryl L. Clarke
*Michelle Cliff
*Barbara Smith
*Bernice Johnson Reagon
*Jewelle Gomez
*June Jordan
*Alice Walker
*Audre Lorde
*Luisah Teish
*Toi Derricotte and others...ee also
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Lesbianism
*Black feminism
*Womanism
*Critical social theory
*African-American literature References
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