off our backs, January 1st, 2002
(W. W. Norton & Co., 2001)
Why did Adrienne Rich develop an interest in the philosophy of Karl Marx? Why did she feel that feminism without Marx (I don't say Marxism because she writes of Marx, not Marxism, and quotes Marx's saying that he was not a Marxist) was not enough for her? Women who have wondered about those questions can find the answers in Rich's new book of essays, Arts of the Possible.
"My thinking was unable to fulfill itself with feminism alone," Rich writes. I, and perhaps many other feminists, found it disappointing when Rich reached that conclusion. After all, she is the ...
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