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 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.
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Paperback
English
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Feb. 12th, 1983
271
9780394713519
5.28 x 8.03 x 0.63 inches
0394713516
0.46 lbs
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"As useful an exposition of the current dilemmas of the women's movement as one could hope for."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Table Of Contents
The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood
p. 3
The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women's Rights
p. 30
Class and Race in the Early Women's Rights Campaign
p. 46
Racism in the Woman Suffrage Movement
p. 70
The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women
p. 87
Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspective
p. 99
Woman Suffrage at the Turn of the Century: The Rising Influence of Racism
p. 110
Black Women and the Club Movement
p. 127
Working Women, Black Women and the History of the Suffrage Movement
p. 137
Communist Women
p. 149
Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist
p. 172
Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights
p. 202
The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective
p. 222
Notes
p. 245
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