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Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

How did racism and class divides shape the American women's movement, and what did that mean for black and working women?

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Author
Angela Y. Davis

Why read it

  • You will see why a movement for women's rights can still carry the racism of its time
  • You will understand why the history of slavery changes once you look closely at the women who lived it
  • You will learn why housework is called invisible work, and why sharing it out may not solve the problem

Who it is for

  • A women's studies student whose syllabus leaves out Black women
  • An activist asking who gets left out of a movement
  • A couple arguing over who carries the housework

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
  14. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

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