Artwork
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
He saw / Chrystos
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 / Anita Valerio
"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" / Judit Moschkovich
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
Letter to ma / Merle Woo
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.