Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

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Penguin
15 October 2019

Social & cultural history; Society & Social Sciences; Social classes; Gender studies: women; Black & Asian studies

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis

'Black women were equal to their men in the oppression they suffered; they were their men's social equals within the slave community; and they resisted slavery with a passion equal to their men's'

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this seminal history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis examines the racism and class prejudice inherent in so much of white feminism, and in doing so brings to light new pioneering heroines, from field slaves to mill workers, who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born.

By: Angela Y. Davis
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 193g
ISBN: 9780241408407
ISBN 10: 0241408407
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.