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Women, race & class / Angela Y. Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: EB00171811 | Recorded BooksPublication details: New York : Vintage eBooks, [2011]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780307798497
  • 0307798496
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.4/2 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.86 .D383 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood 3 -- 2. The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women's Rights 30 -- 3. Class and Race in the Early Women's Rights Campaign 46 -- 4. Racism in the Woman Suffrage Movement 70 -- 5. The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women 87 -- 6. Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspective 99 -- 7. Woman Suffrage at the Turn of the Century: The Rising Influence of Racism 110 -- 8. Black Women and the Club Movement 127 -- 9. Working Women, Black Women and the History of the Suffrage Movement 137 -- 10. Communist Women 149 -- 11. Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist 172 -- 12. Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights 202 -- 13. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective 222.
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.
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Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1981.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood 3 -- 2. The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women's Rights 30 -- 3. Class and Race in the Early Women's Rights Campaign 46 -- 4. Racism in the Woman Suffrage Movement 70 -- 5. The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women 87 -- 6. Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspective 99 -- 7. Woman Suffrage at the Turn of the Century: The Rising Influence of Racism 110 -- 8. Black Women and the Club Movement 127 -- 9. Working Women, Black Women and the History of the Suffrage Movement 137 -- 10. Communist Women 149 -- 11. Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist 172 -- 12. Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights 202 -- 13. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective 222.

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.