Ain't I a Woman (Pluto Classics)

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Ain't I a Woman (Pluto Classics)

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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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Publisher
Pluto Press
Language
English
Pages
192

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Cover of: Ain't I a Woman
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
2006-01-01, Between the Lines
Cover of: Ain't I a woman
Ain't I a woman: Black women and feminism
1991, South End Press
in English
Cover of: Ain't I a Woman (Pluto Classics)
Ain't I a Woman (Pluto Classics)
December 1983, Pluto Press
Paperback in English

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First Sentence

""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.""

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
192
Dimensions
8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
Weight
7 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL9694810M
ISBN 10
0861043790
ISBN 13
9780861043798
LibraryThing
31996
Goodreads
809485

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL31123W

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"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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