ABSTRACT
More than a decade ago, in 1979, Audre Lorde stated that any discussion of feminist theory would be a particular academic arrogance if this discussion failed to examine ‘our many differences and [was] without a significant input from poor women, black and Third-World women and lesbians. Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women, as we, those of us who have been forged in the crucible of difference; those who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older, know that survival is not an academic skill’.
