Women, race & class
- United States of America -- Random House -- 1983
- 271p.
*Legacy of slavery, standards for a new womanhood
*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
*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
*Approaching obsolescence of housework, a working-class perspective
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.
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African Americans History Economic history Race relations Racism Sexism United States