"In a retrospective examination of the black female slave experience, sexism looms as large as racism as an oppressive force in the lives of black women."
An edition of Ain't I a Woman: Black women and Feminism
(1981)
Ain't I a woman
Black women and feminism
by bell hooks, bell hooks, and Bell Hooks
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An examination of the politics of racism and sexism from a feminist perspective, looking at the impact of sexism on African-American women during slavery, the devaluation of African-American womanhood, African-American male sexism, racism within the modern feminist movement, and the African-American woman's involvement in feminism and its experience and relationship to society.
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Afro-American women, Blacks, anti-capitalism, Black feminism, Women, African American women, Sexism, Social conditions, Social Movements, Feminism, History, Love, Schwarze Frau, Seksisme, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Sexismus, Rassismus, Feminisme, African Americans, Vrouwen, Negers, Slavernij, Women's rights, Racism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Noires américaines, Conditions sociales, Sexisme, Féminisme, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Discrimination & Race Relations, Minority StudiesPlaces
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 197-202.
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A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote Ain't I a Woman (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.
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