Women, Race & Class

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Gender Studies / Davis, Angela Y.
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1981.
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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Mandatory submitted by Nataliemadams on August 1, 2020, 9:05pm This should be read by everyone. If this type of literature was at the forefront of our education system imagine where we would be today. Don’t call yourself a feminist until you’ve read this book.