Words of fire : an anthology of African-American feminist thought /

Words of fire : an anthology of African-American feminist thought / Beverly Guy-Sheftall ; [with an epilogue by Johnnetta B. Cole].

"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term "feminism." And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and anal...

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Other Authors: Guy-Sheftall, Beverly.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, [1995]
Subjects:
African American women > Literary collections.
American literature > African American authors.
African American women.
African American women > Social conditions.
Feminism > United States.
Racism > United States.
Sexism > United States.
Feminism.
Racism.
Sexism.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 mainstream feminism and Black nationalism.

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