Women, Race, & Class,9780394713519

Women, Race, & Class

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ISBN13: 9780394713519
ISBN10: 0394713516
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1983-02-12
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD
3(27)
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS
30(16)
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
46(24)
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
70(17)
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN
87(12)
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE
99(11)
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM
110(17)
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT
127(10)
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
137(12)
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
149(23)
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
172(30)
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
202(20)
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE
222(23)
NOTES 245

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