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Women, Race, & Class

by Angela Y Davis

Women, Race, & Class Cover

ISBN13: 9780394713519
ISBN10: 0394713516
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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.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents

1. 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

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this is the type of book that should be read daily to empower women and men alike beacuse through struggle and suffarge we al lhave prevailed
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780394713519
Author:
Davis, Angela Y.
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Author:
Davis, Angela Yvonne
Author:
Davis, Angela Y.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
United States - General
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Subject:
African American Studies
Subject:
Racism
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Sexism
Subject:
United States Economic conditions 1971-1981.
Subject:
Estados Unidos
Subject:
Racismo
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Subject:
United States Race relations.
Subject:
Racism -- United States.
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
February 1983
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
271
Dimensions:
8.10x5.22x.62 in. .48 lbs.

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