An edition of Ain't I a Woman: Black women and Feminism (1981)

Ain't I a woman

Black women and feminism

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An edition of Ain't I a Woman: Black women and Feminism (1981)

Ain't I a woman

Black women and feminism

by

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 161 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 12 Have read

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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South End Press
Language
English
Pages
205

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Subjects
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, African american women, Women's rights, Racism
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2006-01-01, Between the Lines
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Ain't I a woman: Black women and feminism
1991, South End Press
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Ain't I a Woman (Pluto Classics)
December 1983, Pluto Press
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Ain't I a woman: black women and feminism
1982, Pluto
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Boston, MA

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 197-202.

Classifications

Library of Congress
E185.86 .H73 1981, E185.86 .H73 1984

The Physical Object

Pagination
205 p. ;
Number of pages
205

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18368275M
Internet Archive
aintiwoman00bell
ISBN 10
089608129X
LCCN
81051392
OCLC/WorldCat
25734745, 7937149
Library Thing
31996
Goodreads
250792

Work Description

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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"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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