Women, race and class / Angela Y. Davis.

  • Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
Date:
2019
  • Books

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Description

The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis. 'Black women were equal to their men in the oppression they suffered; they were their men's social equals within the slave community; and they resisted slavery with a passion equal to their men's'. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this seminal history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis examines the racism and class prejudice inherent in so much of white feminism, and in doing so brings to light new pioneering heroines, from field slaves to mill workers, who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born.

Publication/Creation

London : Penguin Books, 2019.

Physical description

247 pages ; 20 cm.

Notes

First published in the USA by Random House in 1981
Selected for our collections by Clara Searle. Clara is a Guyanese Gibraltarian PhD researcher whose work explores diversity and representation within book publishing and western media. She was a Techne Racial Justice Placement Student at Wellcome Collection between September 2022 – February 2023 and selected this book as part of a larger list that aims to disrupt the racist and colonial tradition of collecting that exists historically within Wellcome's library collections.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The legacy of slavery: standards for a new womanhood -- The anti-slavery movement and the birth of women's rights -- Class and race in the early women's rights campaign -- Racism in the woman suffrage movement -- The meaning of emancipation according to black women -- Education and liberation: black women's perspective -- Woman suffrage at the turn of the century: the rising influence of racism -- Black women and the club movement -- Working women, black women and the history of the suffrage movement -- Communist women -- Rape, racism and the myth of the black rapist -- Racism, birth control and reproductive rights -- The approaching obsolescence of housework: a working-class perspective.

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    History of Medicine
    CBW.U.6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0241408407
  • 9780241408407