Women, race and class / created by Angela Y. Davis

Indhold: 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.

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.