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.