Women, race and class
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-2019
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In this classic work the famous communist activist, who was jailed for her beliefs, brings her passion and scholarship to confront three major crucial issues of feminism: women, race, and class. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking 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.'The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied' The New York Times
Main title:
Women, race and class / Angela Y. Davis.
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Work:
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
vii, 247 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1981.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241408407 (pbk)9780241408414 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
305.420973305.4209 DAV
LC class:
E185.86
Language:
English
Subject:
Feminism -- United StatesAfrican American women -- HistoryRacism -- United StatesSexism -- United StatesSociety & culture: generalSocial & cultural historySocial classesSlavery & abolition of slaveryGender studies: women & girlsSocial discrimination & equal treatmentEthnic studiesUnited States of America, USAMarxism & CommunismCivics & citizenshipHuman rights, civil rightsEthnic minorities & multicultural studiesSocialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologiesRelating to African American peopleUnited States -- Race relationsSociety
BRN:
629248