"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."
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Ain't I A Woman
Black Women and Feminism
by Bell Hooks, consonni, Gemma Deza Guil, and Lorna Simpson
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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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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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