Women, race & class /
By: Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne) [author.].
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1983Edition: First Vintage books edition.Description: 271 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0394713516; 9780394713519.Other title: Women, race and class.Subject(s): African Americans -- History | Sexism -- United States | Racism -- United States | African Americans | Race Relations -- history | Racism | Women | Social ClassDDC classification: 305.42Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 305.42 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0083227 |
Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1981.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.