Words of fire : an anthology of African-American feminist thought /
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| Imprint: | New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1995. |
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| Description: | xxvi, 577 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2426574 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Evolution of Feminist Consciousness Among African American Women
- Ch. 1. Beginnings: In Defense of Our Race and Sex, 1831-1900. Maria Miller Stewart. Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build. Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall. Sojourner Truth. Woman's Rights. When Woman Gets Her Rights Man Will Be Right. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Woman's Political Future. Anna Julia Cooper. The Status of Woman in America. Julia A. J. Foote. Women in the Gospel. Gertrude Bustill Mossell. The Opposite Point of View. A Lofty Study. Mary Church Terrell. The Progress of Colored Women. Ida Wells-Barnett. Lynch Law in America
- Ch. 2. Triumph and Tribulation: Defining Black Womanhood, 1920-1957. Elise Johnson McDougald. The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation. Alice Dunbar-Nelson. The Negro Woman and the Ballot. Amy Jacques Garvey. Our Women Getting into the Larger Life. Women as Leaders. Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander. Negro Women in Our Economic Life. Florynce "Flo" Kennedy. A Comparative Study: Accentuating the Similarities of the Societal Position of Women and Negroes. Claudia Jones. An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman! Lorraine Hansberry. Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex: An American Commentary
- Ch. 3. Civil Rights and Women's Liberation: Racial/Sexual Politics in the Angry Decades. Frances Beale. Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female. Mary Ann Weathers. An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force. Linda La Rue. The Black Movement and Women's Liberation. Patricia Haden, Donna Middleton, and Patricia Robinson. A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women. Pauli Murray. The Liberation of Black Women. Angela Davis. Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves. Michele Wallace. Anger in Isolation: A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood
- Ch. 4. Beyond the Margins: Black Women Claiming Feminism. The Combahee River Collective. A Black Feminist Statement. Cheryl Clarke. Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance. Barbara Smith. Some Home Truths on the Contemporary Black Feminist Movement. Bell Hooks. Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory. Audre Lorde. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference. Deborah K. King. Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of Black Feminist Ideology. Jacquelyn Grant. Black Theology and the Black Woman. Patricia Hill Collins. The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
- Ch. 5. The Body Politic: Sexuality, Violence, and Reproduction. Barbara Omolade. Hearts of Darkness. Darlene Clark Hine. Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance. Shirley Chisholm. Facing the Abortion Question. Beth E. Richie. Battered Black Women: A Challenge for the Black Community. June Jordan. A New Politics of Sexuality. Paula Giddings. The Last Taboo. Pearl Cleage. What Can I Say. Evelynn Hammonds. Missing Persons: African American Women, AIDS, and the History of Disease
- Ch. 6. Reading the Academy. Margaret Walker Alexander. Black Women in Academia. Gloria Joseph. Black Feminist Pedagogy and Schooling in Capitalist White America. Elizabeth Higginbotham. Designing an Inclusive Curriculum: Bringing All Women into the Core
- Ch. 7. Discourses of Resistance: Interrogating Black Nationalist Ideologies. Pauline Terrelonge. Feminist Consciousness and Black Women. E. Frances White. Africa on My Mind: Gender, Counterdiscourse, and African American Nationalism. Barbara Ransby and Tracye Matthews. Black Popular Culture and the Transcendence of Patriarchal Illusions. Alice Walker. In the Closet of the Soul. Epilogue / Johnnetta B. Cole.