The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays forward War.

The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays forward War, Love, and Knowledge. by means of CHRIS CUOMO. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003

The Philosopher Queen is a powerful illustration of what Cherrie Moraga calls a "theory in the flesh" That is, theorizing from a place where "physical realities of our lives--our skin color, the land or compact we grow up on, our sexual longings--all fuse to create a politic [and, I would add, an ethics, spirituality, and epistemology] born public of necessity" (Moraga 21). Cuomo's theory in the muscle and fat combines ...

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