...be scrutinized and altered to help bring about change? How do we redefine difference for all women? It is not our differences which separate women, but...from the ignoring and misnaming of those differences. As a tool of social control, women have been encouraged to recognize only one area of human difference...

...suggested that it is not differences that separate women as much as their "reluctance to recogni2e those differences and to deal effectively with the...from the ignoring and misnaming of those differences" (SO 112). Mireille and Yaye Khady are reluctant to deal with the distorted definitions that they have...

...issue when she writes: 'It is not our differences which separate women, but our reluctance to recognise those differences and to deal effectively with the...from the ignoring and misnaming of those differences' (1984: 122). If, then, the real material differences between people are to be acknowledged, difference...

...help bring about change? How do we redefine difference for all women? It is not our differences that separate women but our reluctance to recognize those...differences and to deal effectively with the distortions that have resulted from ignoring and misnaming those differences. Women have been encouraged to recognize...

...hierarchical or oppositional ways of thinking, Audre Lorde makes clear what is at issue when she writes: 'It is not our differences which separate women. but our reluctance to recognise those differences and to deal effectively with the distortions which have resulted from the...

...creative possibilities embedded in difference. "How do we redefine difference for all women?" she asked. "It is not our differences which separate women, but our reluctance to recognize those differences" (Sister Outsider 122). I want to suggest, however, that we go beyond the correct naming of our differences...

...her groundbreaking essay, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference." Lorde notes that "it is not our differences which separate women, but...resulted from the ignoring and misnaming of those differences."9 In her explication of difference, Meese finds that "while Tayo believes in the power...

...other oppressions, Lorde argued. "lt is not our differences which separate women," Lorde insisted, "but our reluctance to recognize those differences...from the ignoring and misnaming of those differences" (122). Lorde's call for direct acknowledgment of differences among women based on multiple oppressions...

...help bring about change? How do we redefine difference for all women? It is not our differences that separate women, but our reluctance to recognize those...differences and to deal effectively with the distortions that have resulted from the ignoring and misnaming of those differences. As a tool of social control,...

...us the greatest lessons and has strengthened our ideological sisterhood. According to Audre Lorde, "It is not our differences which separate women, but...from the ignoring and misnaming of those differences" (1984, p. 122). Indeed recognizing and engaging our differences strengthens and contributes to our...