Throughout the years we have seen how women all over the world fight for power through resistance. In the two readings, Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde and The Romanc1e of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power through Bedouin Women by Lila Abu-Lughod we see how women talk about power and resistance and how both have one goal, rights for women. Audre Lorde talks about how the erotic is a power that has to do not only with sex but with the feelings of everything we do. She explains how, “The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling.” Usually erotic is related with sex or pornography but she argues
