Women, race & class / Angela Y. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Sexism--United States.

Sexism.

United States--Economic conditions--1971-1981.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st Vintage Books ed.

Other Title:

Women, race, and class

Women, race, and class.

Place of Publication:

2011.

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1983.

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.

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.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Random House, c1981.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780307798497

0307798496

9781299174061

129917406X

OCLC:

742045905