num_pages: 310
description: At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."
language: English
title: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
titlecomplete: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
genres: Essays, Politics, Philosophy, Theory, Womens, Queer, Nonfiction, Feminism, Poetry, LGBT
ratings_count: 1078
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company