Women, race and class / Angela Y. Davis.
Series: Penguin modern classics: Publisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2019Description: vii, 247 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 45298ISBN: 9780241408407 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Feminism -- United States | African American women -- History | Racism -- United States | Sexism -- United States | Society | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 305.420973 DAV LOC classification: E185.86 | .D383 2019Summary: 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.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 305.42 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 113682 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'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.
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1981.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
There are no comments on this title.