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Women, race, & class / Angela Y. Davis.

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Status Request for on-site use Request scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Vol/date1981	FormatBook/Text	AccessRequest in advance	Call numberHT1521 .D38 1981	Item locationOff-site

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"Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of the fight for civil rights and working class issues. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard: the intimate tie between the anti-slavery campaign and the struggle for women's suffrage. She shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the women's movement have divided its own membership. Davis' message is clear: If we ever want equality, we're gonna have to fight for it together."--Amazon.ca Dec. 2013.

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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 -- Notes.

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