Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 978-1565842564, 1565842561
The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of black feminist thought in th
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English Pages 577 [609] Year 1995
Table of contents :
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 14
Selections......Page 22
Acknowledgments......Page 26
Introduction......Page 28
Introducution......Page 50
Maria MIller Stewart......Page 52
Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build......Page 53
Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall......Page 57
Sojourner Truth......Page 62
Woman's Rights......Page 63
When Woman Gets Her Rights Man Will Be Right......Page 64
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper......Page 66
Woman's Political Future......Page 67
Anna Julia Cooper......Page 70
The Status of Woman in America......Page 71
Julia A.J. Foote......Page 78
Women in the Gospel......Page 79
Gertrude Bustill Mossell......Page 82
The Opposite Point of View......Page 83
A Lofty Study......Page 87
Mary Church Terrell......Page 90
The Progress of Colored Women......Page 91
Ida Wells-Barnett......Page 96
Lynch Law in America......Page 97
Introduction......Page 104
Elise Johnson McDougald......Page 106
The Struggle of Negro Women For Sex and Race Emancipation......Page 107
Alice Dunbar-Nelson......Page 112
The Negro Woman and the Ballot......Page 113
Amy Jacques Garvey......Page 116
Our Women Getting Into the Larger Life......Page 118
Women as Leaders......Page 120
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander......Page 122
Negro Women in Our Economic Life......Page 123
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy......Page 128
A Comparative Study: Accentuating the Similarities of the Societal Position of Women and Negroes......Page 129
Claudia Jones......Page 134
An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!......Page 135
Lorraine Hansberry......Page 152
Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex: An American Commentary......Page 155
Introduction......Page 170
Fracnes Beale......Page 172
Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female......Page 173
Mary Ann Weathers......Page 184
An Argument for Black WOmen's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force......Page 185
Linda La Rue......Page 190
The Black Movement and Women's Liberation......Page 191
Patricia Haden, Donna Middleton, and Patricial Robinson......Page 202
A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women......Page 204
Pauli Murray......Page 212
The Liberation of Black Women......Page 213
Angela Davis......Page 226
Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves......Page 227
Michele Wallace......Page 246
Anger in Isolation: A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood......Page 247
Introduction......Page 256
The Combahee River Collective......Page 258
A Black Feminist Statement......Page 259
Cheryl Clarke......Page 268
Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance......Page 269
Barbara Smith......Page 280
Some Home Truths on the Contemporary Black Feminist Movement......Page 281
bell hooks......Page 296
Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory......Page 297
Audre Lorde......Page 310
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference......Page 311
Deborah K. King......Page 320
Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Contest of a Black Feminist Ideology......Page 321
Jacquelyn Grant......Page 346
Black Theology and the Black Woman......Page 347
Patricia Hill Collins......Page 364
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought......Page 365
Introduction......Page 386
Barbara Omolade......Page 388
Hearts of Darkness......Page 389
Darlene Clark Hine......Page 406
Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance......Page 407
Shirley Chisholm......Page 416
Facing the Abortion Question......Page 417
Beth E. Richie......Page 424
Battered Black Women: A Challenge for the Black Community......Page 425
June Jordan......Page 432
A New Politics of Sexuality......Page 434
Paula Giddings......Page 440
The Last Taboo......Page 441
Pearl Cleage......Page 456
What Can I Say?......Page 457
Evelynn Hammonds......Page 460
Missing Persons: African American Women, AIDS, and the History of the Disease......Page 461
Introduction......Page 478
Margaret Walker Alexander......Page 480
Black Women in Academia......Page 481
Gloria Joseph......Page 488
Black Feminist Pedagogy and Schooling in Capitalist White America......Page 489
Elizabeth Higginbotham......Page 500
Designing an Inclusive Curriculum: Bringing All Women into the Core......Page 501
Introduction......Page 514
Pauline Terrelonge......Page 516
Feminist Consciousness and Black Women......Page 517
E. Frances White......Page 530
Africa on My Mind: Gender, Counterdiscourse, and African American Nationalism......Page 531
Barbara Ransby and Tracye Matthews......Page 552
Black Popular Culture and the Transcendence of Patriarchal Illusions......Page 553
Alice Walker......Page 564
In the Closest of the Soul......Page 565
Epilogue......Page 576
Selected Bibliography......Page 580
Index......Page 594
