Women, Race, & Class

by Davis, Angela Y

• ISBN13: 9780394713519
• ISBN10: 0394713516
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-02-12
• Publisher: Vintage

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.

Author Biography

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD	3	(27)
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS	30	(16)
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN	46	(24)
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT	70	(17)
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN	87	(12)
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE	99	(11)
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM	110	(17)
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT	127	(10)
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT	137	(12)
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN	149	(23)
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST	172	(30)
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS	202	(20)
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE	222	(23)
NOTES	245