Book Synopsis From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women's liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. "Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard."--The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women's rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger's racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work. Review Quotes As useful an exposition of the current dilemmas of the women's movement as one could hope for.--Los Angeles Times Book Review About the Author Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Hair Was Big And Bigger In The 1960s
Honestly, I too cannot believe we still have to protest this shit. But we do. Here are a bunch of books, many recent, that deal with women's rights, and how awesome it is to be a woman, but also how we still don't get the same money for doing the same job, or the same respect for the same behavior, or often, just general safety and decency. F**k all that. This is not meant to be a definitive list (but this print sold by 20x200 aims to be, more so!), but a trove of books to be explored. First offered in March 2017 Archival pigment ink print on fine art paper Based on an original painting by Jane Mount BOOKS INCLUDED: Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis Shrill by Lindy West Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Feminist Theory by Bell Hooks In the Company of Women by Grace Bonney Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde The Women Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Educator, activist and author Angela Davis became known for her involvement in a politically charged murder case in the early 1970s.
Women Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis first edition / second printing hardcover Publisher: Random House, 1981 Condition: book - Near Fine dust jacket - Very Good
Since 1961 Penguin Modern Classics have been an organic, ever-growing and ever-evolving list of books that we believe will continue to be read over and over again. Expand your book collection with notable titles from the series, spanning cult dystopian fiction from Phillip K. Dick and eye-opening texts from Angela Y. Davis. Known for their eau de nil spines, Penguin Modern Classics aim to redefine and refresh what makes a 'classic'. --- Featuring 21 paperbacks: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Silent Spring by Rachel Carson In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Trial by Franz Kafka The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Ice by Anna Kavan In The Castle of My Skin by George Lamming Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde A Gift of Love by Martin Luther King The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
On feminism, prison reform, and more.
