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.
271 pages ;21 cm
Book Details
Author
Davis, Angela Y.
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
1983
Publication Subjects
African Americans--History.
Sexism--United States.
Racism--United States.
Racismo--United States.
Call No.
HT1521.D38 1983
ISBN
0394713516, 9780394713519
LCCN
82020266
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier
Media type: unmediatednrdamedia
Publication Info: {copy}1981