Bibliograph

Women, race & class, Angela Y. Davis

Type

Label

Women, race & class, Angela Y. Davis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women, race & class

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

8907158

Responsibility statement

Angela Y. Davis

Summary

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.--Publisher website

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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Women, race and class

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