Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought,9781565842564

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

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ISBN13: 9781565842564
ISBN10: 1565842561
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Pub. Date: 1995-07-01
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

"In this groundbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term 'feminism.' And, yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses of Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances Harper of the early nineteenth century, and the work of women such as Audre Lourde, Barbara Smith, and bell hooks, who stand on the threshold of the twenty-first century.--from the epilogue by Johnnetta B. Cole, President, Spelman College

Table of Contents

Preface xiii(8)
Selections xxi(4)
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction 1(22)
The Evolution of Feminist Consciousness Among African American Women
CHAPTER ONE Beginnings: In Defense of Our Race and Sex, 1831-1900
23(54)
Introduction
23(2)
MARIA MILLER STEWART
25(1)
Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build
26(4)
Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall
30(5)
SOJOURNER TRUTH
35(1)
Woman's Rights
36(1)
When Woman Gets Her Rights Man Will Be Right
37(2)
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER
39(1)
Woman's Political Future
40(3)
ANNA JULIA COOPER
43(1)
The Status of Woman in America
44(7)
JULIA A. J. FOOTE
51(1)
Women in the Gospel
52(3)
GERTRUDE BUSTILL MOSSELL
55(1)
The Opposite Point of View
56(4)
A Lofty Study
60(3)
MARY CHURCH TERRELL
63(1)
The Progress of Colored Women
64(5)
IDA WELLS-BARNETT
69(1)
Lynch Law in America
70(7)
CHAPTER TWO Triumph and Tribulation: Defining Black Womanhood, 1920-1957
77(66)
Introduction
77(2)
ELISE JOHNSON MCDOUGALD
79(1)
The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation
80(5)
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON
85(1)
The Negro Woman and the Ballot
86(3)
AMY JACQUES GARVEY
89(1)
Introduction
89(2)
Ula Taylor
Our Women Getting into the Larger Life
91(2)
Women as Leaders
93(2)
SADIE TANNER MOSELL ALEXANDER
95(1)
Negro Women in Our Economic Life
96(5)
FLORYNCE "FLO" KENNEDY
101(1)
A Comparative Study: Accentuating the Similarities of the Societal Position of Women and Negroes
102(5)
CLAUDIA JONES
107(1)
An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!
108(17)
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
125(1)
Introduction
125(3)
Margaret B. Wilkerson
Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex: An American Commentary
128(15)
CHAPTER THREE Civil Rights and Women's Liberation: Racial/Sexual Politics in the Angry Decades
143(86)
Introduction
143(2)
FRANCES BEALE
145(1)
Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female
146(11)
MARY ANN WEATHERS
157(1)
An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force
158(5)
LINDA LA RUE
163(1)
The Black Movement and Women's Liberation
164(11)
PATRICIA HADEN, DONNA MIDDLETON, AND PATRICIA ROBINSON
175(2)
A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women
177(8)
PAULI MURRAY
185(1)
The Liberation of Black Women
186(3)
ANGELA DAVIS
199(1)
Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves
200(19)
MICHELE WALLACE
219(1)
Anger in Isolation: A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood
220(9)
CHAPTER FOUR Beyond the Margins: Black Women Claiming Feminism
229(130)
Introduction
229(2)
THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE
231(1)
A Black Feminist Statement
232(9)
CHERYL CLARKE
241(1)
Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance
242(11)
BARBARA SMITH
253(1)
Some Home Truths on the Contemporary Black Feminist Movement
254(15)
BELL HOOKS
269(1)
Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
270(13)
AUDRE LORDE
283(1)
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
284(9)
DEBORAH K. KING
293(1)
Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of Black Feminist Ideology
294(25)
JACQUELYN GRANT
319(1)
Black Theology and the Black Woman
320(17)
PATRICIA HILL COLLINS
337(1)
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
338(21)
CHAPTER FIVE The Body Politic: Sexuality, Violence, and Reproduction
359(92)
Introduction
359(2)
BARBARA OMOLADE
361(1)
Hearts of Darkness
362(17)
DARLENE CLARK HINE
379(1)
Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance
380(9)
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
389(1)
Facing the Abortion Question
390(7)
BETH E. RICHIE
397(1)
Battered Black Women: A Challenge for the Black Community
398(7)
JUNE JORDAN
405(2)
A New Politics of Sexuality
407(6)
PAULA GIDDINGS
413(1)
The Last Taboo
414(15)
PEARL CLEAGE
429(1)
What Can I Say
430(3)
EVELYNN HAMMONDS
433(1)
Missing Persons: African American Women, AIDS, and the History of Disease
434(17)
CHAPTER SIX Reading the Academy
451(36)
Introduction
451(2)
MARGARET WALKER ALEXANDER
453(1)
Black Women in Academia
454(7)
GLORIA JOSEPH
461(1)
Black Feminist Pedagogy and Schooling in Capitalist White America
462(11)
ELIZABETH HIGGINBOTHAM
473(1)
Designing an Inclusive Curriculum: Bringing All Women into the Core
474(13)
CHAPTER SEVEN Discourses of Resistance: Interrogating Black Nationalist Ideologies
487(62)
Introduction
487(2)
PAULINE TERRELONGE
489(1)
Feminist Consciousness and Black Women
490(13)
E. FRANCES WHITE
503(1)
Africa on My Mind: Gender, Counterdiscourse, and African American Nationalism
504(21)
BARBARA RANSBY AND TRACYE MATTHEWS
525(1)
Black Popular Culture and the Transcendence of Patriarchal Illusions
526(11)
ALICE WALKER
537(1)
In the Closet of the Soul
538(11)
Epilogue: Johnnetta B. Cole 549(4)
Selected Bibliography 553(16)
Index 569

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