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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Beverly Guy-Sheftall |
| ISBN: | 1565842561 9781565842564 |
| OCLC Number: | 33270584 |
| Description: | xxvi, 577 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction : the evolution of feminist consciousnesss among African American women -- Chapter 1. Beginnings : in defense of our race and sex, 1831-1900. Religion and the pure principles of morality, the sure foundation on which we must build ; Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall / Maria Miller Stewart -- Woman's rights ; When woman gets her rights man will be right / Sojourner Truth -- Woman's political future / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- The status of woman in America / Anna Julia Cooper -- Women in the Gospel / Julia A. J. Foote -- The opposite point of view ; A lofty study / Gertrude Bustill Mossell -- The progress of colored women / Mary Church Terrell -- Lynch law in America / Ida Wells-Barnett -- Chapter 2. Triumph and tribulation : defining Black womanhood, 1920-1957. The struggle of Negro women for sex and race emancipation / Elise Johnson McDougald -- The Negro woman and the ballot / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Introduction / Ula Taylor ; Our women getting into the larger life ; Women as leaders / Amy Jacques Garvey -- Negro women in our economic life / Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander -- A comparative study : accentuating the similarities of the societal position of women and Negroes / Florynce "Flo" Kennedy -- An end to the neglect of the problems of the Negro woman! / Claudia Jones -- Introduction / Margaret B. Wilkerson ; Simone de Beauvoir and 'The second sex' : an American commentary / Lorraine Hansberry -- Chapter 3. Civil rights and women's liberation : racial/sexual politics in the angry decades. Double jeopardy : to be Black and female / Frances Beale -- An argument for Black women's liberation as a revolutionary force / Mary Ann Weathers -- The Black movement and women's liberation / Linda La Rue -- A historical and critical essay for Black women / Patricia Haden, Donna Middleton, and Patricia Robinson -- The liberation of Black women / Pauli Murray -- Reflections on the Black woman's role in the community of slaves / Angela Davis -- Anger in isolation : a Black feminist's search for sisterhood / Michele Wallace -- Chapter 4. Beyond the margins : Black women claiming feminism. A Black feminist statement / The Combahee River Collective -- Lesbianism : an act of resistance / Cheryl Clarke -- Some home truths on the contemporary Black feminist movement / Barbara Smith -- Black women : shaping feminist theory / bell hooks -- Age, race, class, and sex : women redefining difference / Audre Lorde -- Multiple jeopardy, multiple consciousness : the context of Black feminist ideology / Deborah K. King -- Black theology and the Black woman / Jacquelyn Grant -- The social construction of Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Chapter 5. The body politic : sexuality, violence, and reproduction. Hearts of darkness / Barbara Omolade -- Rape and the inner lives of Black women in the Middle West : preliminary thoughts on the culture of dissemblance / Darlene Clark Hine -- Facing the abortion question / Shirley Chisholm -- Battered Black women : a challenge for the Black community / Beth E. Richie -- A new politics of sexuality / June Jordan -- The last taboo / Paula Giddings -- What can I say / Pearl Cleage -- Missing persons : African American women, AIDS, and the history of disease / Evelynn Hammonds -- Chapter 6. Reading the academy. Black women in academia / Margaret Walker Alexander -- Black feminist pedagogy and schooling in capitalist white America / Gloria Joseph -- Designing an inclusive curriculum : bringing all women into the core / Elizabeth Higginbotham -- Chapter 7. Discourses of resistance : interrogating Black nationalist ideologies. Feminist consciousness and Black women / Pauline Terrelonge -- Africa on my mind : gender, counterdiscourse, and African American nationalism / E. Frances White -- Black popular culture and the transcendence of patriarchal illusions / Barbara Ransby and Tracye Matthews -- In the closet of the soul / Alice Walker -- Epilogue / Johnetta B. Cole. Introduction: The evolution of feminist consciousness among African American women -- Beginnings: in defense of our race and sex, 1831-1900 -- Triumph and tribulation: defining black womanhood, 1920-1957 -- Civil rights and women's liberation: racial/sexual politics in the angry decades -- Beyond the margins: black women claiming feminism -- The body politic: sexuality, violence, and reproduction -- Reading the academy -- Discourses of resistance: interrogating black nationalist ideologies. |
| Responsibility: | Beverly Guy-Sheftall ; [with an epilogue by Johnnetta B. Cole]. |
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Abstract:
This anthology traces the development - from the early 1800s to the present day - of black feminist thought. It consists of a collection of writings, in the feminist tradition, of over 60 African-American women demonstrating the strong tradition of African-American feminist thought.
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"The indefatigable Beverly Guy-Sheftall has put together a breathtaking sweep of African American feminist thought in one indispensable volume." -Elizabeth Spelman, professor of philosophy, Smith College Read more...
