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Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 3
Episode 39:
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 - This Week]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Reading – 00:28
Discussion – 33:10
[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
[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 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE
Footnotes:
1) – 00:48
Douglass, op. cit., p. 469.
2) – 01:01
Ibid., p. 472.
3) – 01:37
Ibid.
4) – 02:04
Ibid.
5) – 02:34
Stowe, op. cit. Frederick Douglass included the following comments in his autobiography: “In the midst of these fugitive slave troubles came the book known as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a work of marvelous depth and power. Nothing could have better suited the moral and human requirements of the hour. Its effect was amazing, instantaneous, and universal. No book on the subject of slavery had so generally and favorably touched the American heart. It combined all the power and pathos of preceding publications of the kind, and was hailed by many as an inspired production. Mrs. Stowe at once became an object of interest and admiration.” (Douglass, op. cit., p. 282)
6) – 03:17
Stowe, op. cit., p. 107.
7) – 05:07
See Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, “Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework,”Chapter 5 of For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978). Also Ann Oakley, Woman’s Work: The Housewife Past and Present (New York: Vintage Books, 1976).
8) – 06:19
See Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S. (New York: Atheneum, 1973). Also Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America (New York: New Viewpoints, 1975).
9) – 07:04
See Aptheker, Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion (New York: Humanities Press, 1966); Harriet H.Robinson, Loom and Spindle or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (Kailua, Hawaii: Press Pacifica, 1976). Also Wertheimer, op. cit., and Flexner, op. cit.
10) – 07:49
Robinson, op. cit., p. 51.
11) – 08:22
See discussion of this tendency to equate the institution of marriage with that of slavery in Pamela Allen, “Woman Suffrage: Feminism and White Supremacy,”Chapter V of Robert Allen, Reluctant Reformers (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974), pp. 1368.
12) – 09:28
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 106.
13) – 10:07
See Flexner, op. cit., pp. 38–40. Also Samuel Sillen, Women Against Slavery (New York: Masses and Mainstream, Inc., 1955), pp. 11–16.
14) – 11:18
Sillen, op. cit., p. 13.
15) – 12:10
Ibid.
16) – 12:31
Ibid., p. 14.
17) – 14:15
Liberator, January 1, 1831. Quoted in William Z. Foster, The Negro People in American History (New York: International Publishers, 1970), p. 108.
18) – 16:10
Sillen, op. cit., p. 17.
19) – 16:53
Ibid.
20) – 17:04
The first woman to speak publicly in the United States was the Scottish-born lecturer and writer Frances Wright (see Flexner, op. cit., pp. 27–28). When the Black woman Maria W. Stewart delivered four lectures in Boston in 1832, she became the first native-born woman to speak publicly (see Lerner, op. cit., p. 83).
21) – 17:49
Flexner, op. cit., p. 42. See the text of the constitution of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in Judith Papachristou, editor, Women Together: A History in Documents of the Women’s Movement in the United States (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., A Ms. Book, 1976), pp. 4–5.
22) – 18:21
Sillen, op. cit., p. 20.
23) – 18:45
Ibid., pp. 21–22.
24) – 19:22
Ibid., p. 25.
25) – 21:29
Flexner, op. cit., p. 51.
26) – 22:46
Ibid.
27) – 23:53
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage,Vol. 1 (1848–1861) (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881), p. 52.
28) – 24:51
Quoted in Papachristou, op. cit., p. 12. See Gerda Lerner’s analysis of the pastoral letter in her work The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), p. 189.
29) – 25:03
Quoted in Papachristou, op. cit., p. 12.
30) – 25:42
Ibid.
31) – 26:57
Sarah Grimke began publishing her Letters on the Equality of the Sexes in July, 1837. They appeared in the New England Spectator and were reprinted in the Liberator. See Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 187.
32) – 27:31
Quoted in Alice Rossi, editor, The Feminist Papers (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 308.
33) – 27:46
Ibid.
34) – 28:58
34. Quoted in Flexner, op. cit., p. 48. Also quoted and discussed in Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 201.
35) – 30:49
Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States. Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women and Held by Adjournment from the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837 (New York: W. S. Dorr, 1838), pp. 13–14.
36) – 31:17
Ibid., p. 21.
37) – 31:34
Flexner, op. cit., p. 47.
38) – 32:43
Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 353.
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Episode 39:
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 - This Week]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Reading – 00:28
Discussion – 33:10
[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
[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 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE
Footnotes:
1) – 00:48
Douglass, op. cit., p. 469.
2) – 01:01
Ibid., p. 472.
3) – 01:37
Ibid.
4) – 02:04
Ibid.
5) – 02:34
Stowe, op. cit. Frederick Douglass included the following comments in his autobiography: “In the midst of these fugitive slave troubles came the book known as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a work of marvelous depth and power. Nothing could have better suited the moral and human requirements of the hour. Its effect was amazing, instantaneous, and universal. No book on the subject of slavery had so generally and favorably touched the American heart. It combined all the power and pathos of preceding publications of the kind, and was hailed by many as an inspired production. Mrs. Stowe at once became an object of interest and admiration.” (Douglass, op. cit., p. 282)
6) – 03:17
Stowe, op. cit., p. 107.
7) – 05:07
See Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, “Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework,”Chapter 5 of For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978). Also Ann Oakley, Woman’s Work: The Housewife Past and Present (New York: Vintage Books, 1976).
8) – 06:19
See Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S. (New York: Atheneum, 1973). Also Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America (New York: New Viewpoints, 1975).
9) – 07:04
See Aptheker, Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion (New York: Humanities Press, 1966); Harriet H.Robinson, Loom and Spindle or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (Kailua, Hawaii: Press Pacifica, 1976). Also Wertheimer, op. cit., and Flexner, op. cit.
10) – 07:49
Robinson, op. cit., p. 51.
11) – 08:22
See discussion of this tendency to equate the institution of marriage with that of slavery in Pamela Allen, “Woman Suffrage: Feminism and White Supremacy,”Chapter V of Robert Allen, Reluctant Reformers (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974), pp. 1368.
12) – 09:28
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 106.
13) – 10:07
See Flexner, op. cit., pp. 38–40. Also Samuel Sillen, Women Against Slavery (New York: Masses and Mainstream, Inc., 1955), pp. 11–16.
14) – 11:18
Sillen, op. cit., p. 13.
15) – 12:10
Ibid.
16) – 12:31
Ibid., p. 14.
17) – 14:15
Liberator, January 1, 1831. Quoted in William Z. Foster, The Negro People in American History (New York: International Publishers, 1970), p. 108.
18) – 16:10
Sillen, op. cit., p. 17.
19) – 16:53
Ibid.
20) – 17:04
The first woman to speak publicly in the United States was the Scottish-born lecturer and writer Frances Wright (see Flexner, op. cit., pp. 27–28). When the Black woman Maria W. Stewart delivered four lectures in Boston in 1832, she became the first native-born woman to speak publicly (see Lerner, op. cit., p. 83).
21) – 17:49
Flexner, op. cit., p. 42. See the text of the constitution of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in Judith Papachristou, editor, Women Together: A History in Documents of the Women’s Movement in the United States (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., A Ms. Book, 1976), pp. 4–5.
22) – 18:21
Sillen, op. cit., p. 20.
23) – 18:45
Ibid., pp. 21–22.
24) – 19:22
Ibid., p. 25.
25) – 21:29
Flexner, op. cit., p. 51.
26) – 22:46
Ibid.
27) – 23:53
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage,Vol. 1 (1848–1861) (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881), p. 52.
28) – 24:51
Quoted in Papachristou, op. cit., p. 12. See Gerda Lerner’s analysis of the pastoral letter in her work The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), p. 189.
29) – 25:03
Quoted in Papachristou, op. cit., p. 12.
30) – 25:42
Ibid.
31) – 26:57
Sarah Grimke began publishing her Letters on the Equality of the Sexes in July, 1837. They appeared in the New England Spectator and were reprinted in the Liberator. See Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 187.
32) – 27:31
Quoted in Alice Rossi, editor, The Feminist Papers (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 308.
33) – 27:46
Ibid.
34) – 28:58
34. Quoted in Flexner, op. cit., p. 48. Also quoted and discussed in Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 201.
35) – 30:49
Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States. Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women and Held by Adjournment from the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837 (New York: W. S. Dorr, 1838), pp. 13–14.
36) – 31:17
Ibid., p. 21.
37) – 31:34
Flexner, op. cit., p. 47.
38) – 32:43
Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 353.