Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

81-7308

ISBN 0-399-50575-X

AACR2

First Perigee printing, 1981

Printed in the United States of America

C ontents

Preface

xi

1. Feminism, A rt, and My M other Sylvia

1

2. Renouncing Sexual “Equality”

10

3. Remembering the Witches

15

4. The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door

22

5. The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage

50

6. Redefining Nonviolence

66

7. Lesbian Pride

73

8. Our Blood: The Slavery of Women in Amerika

76

9. The Root Cause

96

Notes

113

FOR BARBARA DEMING

I suggest that if we are willing to confront our own

most seemingly personal angers, in their raw state,

and take upon ourselves the task of translating this

raw anger into the disciplined anger of the search

for change, we will find ourselves in a position to

speak much more persuasively to comrades about

the need to root out from all anger the spirit of

murder.

Barbara Deming, “On Anger”

We Cannot Live Without Our Lives

Now, women do not ask half of a kingdom but

their rights, and they don’t get them. When she

comes to demand them, don’t you hear how sons

hiss their mothers like snakes, because they ask

for their rights; and can they ask for anything