From the Book - Fourth edition.
Catching fire: preface to the Fourth Edition / Cherríe Moraga
Acts of healing / Gloria Anzaldúa and The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Literary Trust
Foreword to the First Edition, 1981 / Toni Cade Bambara
The bridge poem / Kate Rushin
La jornada: preface, 1981 / Cherríe Moraga
Introduction, 1981 / Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
I. Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism. When I was growing up / Nellie Wong
On not bein / Mary Hope Whitehead Lee
For the color of my mother / Cherríe Moraga
I am what I am / Rosario Morales
Dreams of violence / Naomi Littlebear Morena
II. Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh. Wonder woman / Genny Lim
La güera / Cherríe Moraga
Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman / Mitsuye Yamada
It's in my blood, my face
my mother's voice, the way I sweat /
"Gee you don't seem like an Indian from the reservation" / Barbara Cameron
" ... and even Fidel can't change that!" / Aurora Levins Morales
I walk in the history of my people / Chrystos
III. And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You: Racism in the Women's Movement. And when you leave, take your pictures with you / Jo Carillo
Beyond the cliffs of Abiquiu / Jo Carillo
I don't understand those who have turned away from me / Chrystos
Asian Pacific women and feminism / Mitsuye Yamada
but I know you, American woman" /
The Black back-ups / Kate Rushin
The pathology of racism: a conversation with third world wimmin / Doris Davenport
We're all in the same boat / Rosario Morales
An open letter to Mary Daly / Audre Lorde
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / Audre Lorde
IV. Between the Lines: On Culture, Class, and Homophobia. The other heritage / Rosario Morales
The tired poem: last letter from a typical (unemployed) Black professional woman / Kate Rushin
To be continued ... / Kate Rushin
Across the kitchen table: a sister-to-sister dialogue / Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith
Lesbianism: an act of resistance / Cheryl Clarke
Lowriding through the women's movement / Barbara Noda
I come with no illusions / Mirtha N. Quintanales
I paid very hard for my immigrant ignorance / Mirtha N. Quintanales
Earth-lover, survivor, musician / Naomi Littlebear Morena
V. Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer. Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers / Gloria Anzaldúa
Millicent Fredericks / Gabrielle Daniels
In Search of the self as hero: confetti of voices on New Year's night, a letter to myself / Nellie Wong
Chicana's feminist literature: a re-vision through Malintzin/or Malintzin putting flesh back on the object / Norma Alarcón
Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / Chrystos
VI. El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision. Give me back / Chrystos
La prieta / Gloria Anzaldúa
A Black feminist statement / Combahee River Collective
The welder / Cherríe Moraga
O.K. momma, who the hell am I? an interview with Luisah Teish / Gloria Anzaldúa
Brownness / Andrea Canaan
Revolution: it's not neat or pretty or quick / Pat Parker
No rock scorns me as whore / Chrystos
Appendix. Afterword: On the Fourth Edition / Cherríe Moraga
Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Gloria Anzaldúa
Refugees of a world on fire: Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Cherríe Moraga
Counsels from the firing ... past, present, future: Foreword to the Third Edition, 2001 / Gloria Anzaldúa.
