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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100394713516

ISBN-139780394713519

eBay Product ID (ePID)145672

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Book TitleWomen, Race and Class

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFeminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year1983

GenreSocial Science

AuthorAngela Y. Davis

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN82-040414

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"As useful an exposition of the current dilemmas of the women's movement as one could hope for."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

Dewey Decimal305.4/2

Table Of Content1. The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood 2. The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women's Rights 3. Class and Race in the Early Women's Rights Campaign 4. Racism in the Woman Suffrage Movement 5. The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women 6. Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspective 7. Woman Suffrage at the Turn of the Century: The Rising Influence of Racism 8. Black Women and the Club Movement 9. Working Women, Black Women, and the History of the Suffrage Movement 10. Communist Women 11. Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist 12. Racism, Birth control and Reproductive Rights 13. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-class Perspective

SynopsisFrom one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women's liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. "Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard."-- The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women's rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger's racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work., A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis., A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.

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