Leftist Reading

Episode 59:

This week we’re continuing with The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The full book is available online here:
https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon_Frantz_The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_1963.pdf

[Part 1-3]
Concerning Violence

[Part 4 - This week]
Concerning Violence
- Fourth reading - 0:46

[Part 5-6?]
Concerning Violence - Remaining reading

[Part 7?]
Violence in the International Context

[Part 8-10?]
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness

[Part 11-14?]
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness

[Part 15-17?]
On National Culture

[Part 18?]
Colonial War and Mental Disorders

[Part 19?]
Series A

[Part 20?]
Series B

[Part 21?]
Series C

[Part 22?]
Series D

[Part 23?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:
7) 7:06
It may happen that the arrested leader is in fact the authentic mouthpiece of the colonized masses. In this case colonialism will make use of his period of detention to try to launch new leaders.

8) 24:23
Section Admnistrative Special: An officers' corps whose task was to strengthen contact with the Algerians in non-military matters.

Episode 58:

This week we’re continuing with The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The full book is available online here:
https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon_Frantz_The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_1963.pdf

[Part 1-2]
Concerning Violence

[Part 3 - This week]
Concerning Violence
- Third reading - 01:05

[Part 4?]
Concerning Violence - Remaining reading

[Part 5?]
Violence in the International Context

[Part 6-8?]
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness

[Part 9-12?]
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness

[Part 13-15?]
On National Culture

[Part 16?]
Colonial War and Mental Disorders

[Part 17?]
Series A

[Part 18?]
Series B

[Part 19?]
Series C

[Part 20?]
Series D

[Part 21?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:
6) 13:01
Friedrich Engels: Anti-Duhring, Part II, Chapter III, "Theory of Violence," p. 199.

Episode 57:

This week we’re beginning a new book, The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The full book is available online here:
https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon_Frantz_The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_1963.pdf

[Part 1]
Concerning Violence

[Part 2 - This week]
Concerning Violence
- Second reading - 00:35

[Part 3-4?]
Concerning Violence - Remaining reading

[Part 5?]
Violence in the International Context

[Part 6-8?]
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness

[Part 9-12?]
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness

[Part 13-15?]
On National Culture

[Part 16?]
Colonial War and Mental Disorders

[Part 17?]
Series A

[Part 18?]
Series B

[Part 19?]
Series C

[Part 20?]
Series D

[Part 21?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:
3) 05:04
Village assemblies. —Trans.

4) 14:55
See the section: "Colonial War and Mental Disorders."

5) 23:14
Highly-trained soldiers who are completely dedicated to the Mos­lem cause. —Trans.

Episode 56:

This week we’re beginning a new book, The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The full book is available online here:
https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon_Frantz_The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_1963.pdf

[Part 1 - This Week]
Concerning Violence
- First reading - 01:24

[Part 2-4?]
Concerning Violence - Remaining reading

[Part 5?]
Violence in the International Context

[Part 6-8?]
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness

[Part 9-12?]
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness

[Part 13-15?]
On National Culture

[Part 16?]
Colonial War and Mental Disorders

[Part 17?]
Series A

[Part 18?]
Series B

[Part 19?]
Series C

[Part 20?]
Series D

[Part 21?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:
1) 14:42
We have demonstrated the mechanism of this Manichean world in Black Skin, White Masks (New York: Grove Press, 1967).

2) 22:54
Fanon is writing in 1961.—Trans.

Episode 55:

This week we’re finishing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE - First half

[Part 19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE
Second Half - 00:31
Discussion - 24:43

Footnotes:
14) 02:07
Speech by Polga Fortunata. Quoted in Wendy Edmond and Suzie Fleming, editors, All Work and No Pay: Women, Housework and the Wages Due! (Bristol, England: Falling Wall Press, 1975), p. 18.

15) 02:42
Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (Bristol, England: Falling Wall Press, 1973).

16) 03:28
Ibid., p. 28.

17) 04:00
Mary Inman, In Woman’s Defense (Los Angeles: Committee to Organize the Advancement of Women, 1940). See also Inman, The Two Forms of Production Under Capitalism (Long Beach, Cal.: Published by the Author, 1964).

18) 04:07
Margaret Benston, “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” Monthly Review, Vol. XXI, No. 4 (September, 1969).

19) 05:40
“On the Economic Status of the Housewife.” Editorial Comment in Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 3 (March, 1974), p. 4.

20) 06:26
Hilda Bernstein, For Their Triumphs and For Their Tears: Women in Apartheid South Africa (London: International Defence and Aid Fund, 1975), p. 13

21) 07:02
Elizabeth Landis, “Apartheid and the Disabilities of Black Women in South Africa,” Objective: Justice, Vol. VII, No. 1 (January-March, 1975), p. 6. Excerpts from this paper were published in Freedomways, Vol. XV, No. 4, 1975.

22) 07:36
Bernstein, op. cit., p. 33.

23) 07:49
Landis, op. cit., p. 6.

24) 09:43
V. I. Lenin, “A Great Beginning,”pamphlet published in July, 1919. Quoted in Collected Works, Vol. 29 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966), p. 429.

25) 10:55
Released in the United States under the title Black Girl.

26) 12:09
Jackson, op. cit., pp. 236–237.

27) 12:27
Victor Perlo, Economics of Racism U.S.A., Roots of Black Inequality (New York: International Publishers, 1975), p. 24.

28) 12:42
Staples, The Black Woman in America, p. 27.

29) 14:10
Daily World, July 26, 1977, p. 9.

30) 15:39
Dalla Costa and James, op. cit., p. 40.

31) 16:39
Pat Sweeney, “Wages for Housework: The Strategy for Women’s Liberation,” Heresies, January, 1977, p. 104.

32) 17:22
Dalla Costa and James, op. cit., p. 41.

33) 18:40
Ann Oakley, The Sociology of Housework (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974).

34) 20:05
Ibid., p. 65.

35) 20:31
Ibid., p. 44.

36) 21:02
Ibid., p. 53.

37) 21:26
Psychology Today, Vol. X, No. 4 (September, 1976), p. 76.

Episode 54:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18 - This week]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE
First half -

[Part 19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE - Second Half

Footnotes:
1) 01:05
Oakley, op. cit., p. 6.

2) 01:39
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, “The Manufacture of Housework,” in Socialist Revolution, No. 26, Vol. 5, No. 4 (October–December 1975), p. 6.

3) 05:34
Frederick Engels, Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, edited, with an introduction, by Eleanor Burke Leacock (New York: International Publishers, 1973). See Chapter II. Leacock’s introduction to this edition contains numerous enlightening observations on Engels’ theory of the historical emergence of male supremacy.

4) 08:47
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 12.

5) 09:45
Ehrenreich and English, “The Manufacture of Housework,” p. 9.

6) 10:19
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 12.

7) 10:41
Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 17.

8) 11:35
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 13.

9) 13:09
Ehrenreich and English, “The Manufacture of Housework,”p. 10.

10) 17:24
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Home: Its Work and Its Influence (Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Reprint of the 1903 edition), pp. 30–31.

11) 17:45
Ibid., p. 10.

12) 18:09
Ibid., p. 217.

13) 20:39
DuBois, Darkwater, p. 185.

Episode 53:

Content Warnings:
Abortion
Self Induced Abortion
Death from a medical procedure
Eugenics
Racism
Ableism
Forced sterilisation
Forced Sterilisation as governmental policy
Medical Abuse
Medical Malpractice

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Content warnings for this week:
Birth control
Abortion
Self induced abortion
Infanticide
Rape
Racism

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS - First half

[Part 17 - This Week]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
Second half -
Discussion -

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
18)
Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography (New York: Dover Press, 1971), p. 75.

19)
Ibid., p. 90.

20)
Ibid., p. 91.

21)
Ibid., p. 92.

22)
Ibid., p. 106.

23)
Mass, op. cit., p. 27.

24)
Dancis, op. cit., p. 96.

25)
David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976), pp. 21–22.

26)
Mass, op. cit., p. 20.

27)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 281.

28)
Mass, op. cit., p. 20.

29)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 283.

30)
Herbert Aptheker, “Sterilization, Experimentation and Imperialism,” Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 1 (January, 1974), p. 44.

31)
Gena Corea, The Hidden Malpractice (New York: A Jove/HBJ Book, 1977). p. 149.

32)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 332.

33)
Ibid., pp. 332–333.

34)
Aptheker, “Sterilization,”p. 38. See also Anne Braden, “Forced Sterilization: Now Women Can Fight Back,” Southern Patriot, September, 1973.

35)
Ibid.

36)
Jack Slater, “Sterilization, Newest Threat to the Poor,” Ebony, Vol. XXVIII, No. 12 (October, 1973), p. 150.

37)
Braden, op. cit.

38)
Les Payne, “Forced Sterilization for the Poor?” San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 1974.

39)
Harold X., “Forced Sterilization Pervades South,” Muhammed Speaks, October 10, 1975.

40)
Slater, op. cit.

41)
Payne, op. cit.

42)
Ibid.

43)
Ibid.

44)
Aptheker, “Sterilization,” p. 40.

45)
Payne, op. cit.

46)
Aptheker, “Sterilization,” p. 48.

47)
Arlene Eisen, “They’re Trying to Take Our Future—Native American Women and Sterilization,” The Guardian, March 23, 1972.

48)
Ibid.

49)
Ibid.

50)
Quoted in a pamphlet issued by the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse, Box A244, Cooper Station, New York 10003.

51)
Ibid.

52)
Ibid.

53)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 338.

54)
Ibid.

55)
Mass, op. cit., p. 92.

56)
Ibid., p. 91.

57)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 401. See also pamphlet issued by CESA.

58)
Mass, op. cit., p. 108.

59)
Rahemah Aman, “Forced Sterilization,” Union Wage, March 4, 1978.

60)
Ibid.

Episode 52:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Content warnings for this week:
Birth control
Abortion
Self induced abortion
Infanticide
Rape
Racism

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - This Week]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
First half - 00:40

[Part 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS - Second half

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 05:39
Edwin M. Gold et al., “Therapeutic Abortions in New York City: A Twenty-Year Review” in American Journal of Public Health, Vol. LV (July, 1965), pp. 964–972. Quoted in Lucinda Cisla, “Unfinished Business: Birth Control and Women’s Liberation,”in Robin Morgan, editor, Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York: Vintage Books, 1970), p. 261. Also quoted in Robert Staples, The Black Woman in America (Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1974), p. 146.

2) 07:12
Gutman, op. cit., pp. 80–81 (note).

3) 07:19
Ibid.

4) 07:51
Aptheker, “The Negro Woman,”p. 12.

5) 10:38
Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 17.

6) 11:01
Ibid.

7) 11:31
Lerner, The Female Experience, op. cit., p. 91.

8) 11:48
Ibid.

9) 11:56
Ibid.

10) 12:24
“Marriage of Lucy Stone under Protest” appeared in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1. Quoted in Schneir, op, cit., p. 104.

11) 13:12
Speech by Victoria Woodhull, “The Elixir of Life.” Quoted in Schneir, op. cit, p. 153.

12) 15:07
Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1975), p. 162.

13) 15:49
Melvin Steinfeld, Our Racist Presidents (San Ramon, California: Consensus Publishers, 1972), p.212.

14) 16:12
Bonnie Mass, Population Target: The Political Economy of Population Control in Latin America (Toronto, Canada: Women’s Educational Press, 1977), p. 20.

15) 16:59
Linda Gordon, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America (New York: Penguin Books, 1976), p. 157.

16) 17:45
Ibid., p. 158.

17) 18:54
Ibid.

Episode 51:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Content warnings for this week:
Rape
Lynching

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
- First half

[Part 15 - This Week]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
- Second half - 00:44

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
36) 01:06
Ibid., p. 501.

37) 01:52
Ibid.

38) 02:30
Ibid.

39) 04:16
Ibid., p. 502.

40) 04:45
Collins, op. cit., p. 58.

41) 05:38
Gager and Schurr, op. cit., p. 163.

42) 05:52
Ibid.

43) 07:00
Wells-Barnett, On Lynching, p. 59.

44) 08:12
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 503.

45) 09:15
Ibid, p. 499.

46) 10:19
Lynchings and What They Mean, General Findings of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (Atlanta: 1931), p. 19.

47) 11:08
Quoted in Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 205–206.

48) 11:20
Franklin and Starr, op. cit., p. 67.

49) 11:46
Wells-Barnett, On Lynching, p. 57.

50) 12:48
Ibid., p. 8.

51) 13:48
Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 149.

52) 14:26
Ralph Ginzburg, One Hundred Years of Lynchings (New York: Lancer Books, 1969), p. 96.

53) 15:46
Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 63.

54) 15:57
See Chapter 8.

55) 17:01
Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 218.

56) 17:41
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 205–211.

57) 18:27
Ibid., p. 215.

58) 19:06
See Jessie Daniel Ames, The Changing Character of Lynching, 1931–1941 (New York: AMS Press, 1973).

59) 19:31
Ibid., p. 19.

60) 20:24
White, op. cit., p. 3.

61) 22:23
Ames, op. cit., p. 64.

62) 24:09
White, op. cit., p. 159.

63) 24:56
Foner, Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 496.

64) 25:49
Brownmiller, op. cit., p. 255.

65) 27:39
Ibid., pp. 248–249.

66) 28:41
Ibid., p. 237.

67) 28:59
Ibid., p. 233.

Episode 50:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Content warnings for this week:
Rape
Lynching

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14 - This week]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
- First half - 00:33

[Part 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
- Second half

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 00:56
Edwin M. Gold et al., “Therapeutic Abortions in New York City: A Twenty-Year Review” in American Journal of Public Health, Vol. LV (July, 1965), pp. 964–972. Quoted in Lucinda Cisla, “Unfinished Business: Birth Control and Women’s Liberation,”in Robin Morgan, editor, Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York: Vintage Books, 1970), p. 261. Also quoted in Robert Staples, The Black Woman in America (Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1974), p. 146.

2) 02:!5
Gutman, op. cit., pp. 80–81 (note).

3) 03:47
Ibid.

4) 04:49
Aptheker, “The Negro Woman,” p. 12.

5) 05:06
Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 17.

6) 08:11
Ibid.

7) 08:51
Lerner, The Female Experience, op. cit., p. 91.

8) 09:40
Ibid.

9) 10:22
Ibid.

10) 11:34
“Marriage of Lucy Stone under Protest” appeared in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1. Quoted in Schneir, op, cit., p. 104.

11) 12:58
Speech by Victoria Woodhull, “The Elixir of Life.” Quoted in Schneir, op. cit, p. 153.

12) 13:23
Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1975), p. 162.

13) 14:06
Melvin Steinfeld, Our Racist Presidents (San Ramon, California: Consensus Publishers, 1972), p. 212.

14) 14:45
Bonnie Mass, Population Target: The Political Economy of Population Control in Latin America (Toronto, Canada: Women’s Educational Press, 1977), p. 20.

15) 15:34
Linda Gordon, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America (New York: Penguin Books, 1976), p. 157.

16) 15:46
Ibid., p. 158.

17) 15:52
Ibid.

18) 16:16
Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography (New York: Dover Press, 1971), p. 75.

19) 16:24
Ibid., p. 90.

20) 17:20
Ibid., p. 91.

21) 17:46
Ibid., p. 92.

22) 18:37
Ibid., p. 106.

23) 19:22
Mass, op. cit., p. 27.

24) 19:44
Dancis, op. cit., p. 96.

25) 20:10
David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976), pp. 21–22.

26) 21:22
Mass, op. cit., p. 20.

27) 21:48
Gordon, op. cit., p. 281.

28) 22:12
Mass, op. cit., p. 20.

29) 22:36
Gordon, op. cit., p. 283.

30) 24:00
Herbert Aptheker, “Sterilization, Experimentation and Imperialism,” Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 1 (January, 1974), p. 44.

31) 24:19
Gena Corea, The Hidden Malpractice (New York: A Jove/HBJ Book, 1977). p. 149.

32) 24:28
Gordon, op. cit., p. 332.

33) 24:40
Ibid., pp. 332–333.

34) 25:44
Aptheker, “Sterilization,” p. 38. See also Anne Braden, “Forced Sterilization: Now Women Can Fight Back,” Southern Patriot, September, 1973.

35) 26:37
Ibid.