Women, Race & Class

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394713516 ISBN 13: 9780394713519

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1983

A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.

Review:

Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of the fight for civil rights and working class issues. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard: the intimate tie between the anti-slavery campaign and the struggle for women's suffrage. She shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the women's movement have divided its own membership. Davis' message is clear: If we ever want equality, we're gonna have to fight for it together.

From the Publisher:

"As useful an exposition of the current dilemmas of the women's movement as one could hope for."--Los Angeles Times Book Review