Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

by Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor)

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Sociology. Women's Studies. Nonfiction. HTML:"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term "feminism." And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses of Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances W.E. Harper of the early nineteenth century, and the work of women such as the late Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, show more and bell hooks who stand on the threshold of the twenty-first century... She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously struggled for the liberation of African American women from the dual oppressions of racism and sexism." —From the epilogue by Johnnetta B. Cole, President, Spelman College

"The indefatigable Beverly Guy-Sheftall has put together a breathtaking sweep of African American feminist thought in one indispensable volume." —Elizabeth Spelman, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College. show less

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Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell (Contributor)
Beal, Frances (Contributor)
Chisholm, Shirley (Contributor)
Clarke, Cheryl (Contributor)
Cleage, Pearl (Contributor)
Cole, Johnnetta B. (Epilogue)
Collins, Patricia Hill (Contributor)
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Giddings, Paula (Contributor)
Grant, Jacquelyn (Contributor)
Haden, Patricia (Contributor)
Hammonds, Evelynn (Contributor)
Hansberry, Lorraine (Contributor)
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (Contributor)
Higginbotham, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Hine, Darlene Clark (Contributor)
Hooks, Bell (Contributor)
Jones, Claudia (Contributor)
Jordan, June (Contributor)
Joseph, Gloria (Contributor)
Kennedy, Florynce (Contributor)
King, Deborah K. (Contributor)
La Rue, Linda (Contributor)
Lorde, Audre (Contributor)
Matthews, Tracye (Contributor)
McDougald, Elise Johnson (Contributor)
Middleton, Donna (Contributor)
Mossell, Gertrude Bustill (Contributor)
Murray, Pauli (Contributor)
Omolade, Barbara (Contributor)
Ransby, Barbara (Contributor)
Richie, Beth E. (Contributor)
Robinson, Patricia (Contributor)
Smith, Barbara (Contributor)
Stewart, Maria Miller (Contributor)
Terrell, Mary Church (Contributor)
Terrelonge, Pauline (Contributor)
Truth, Sojourner (Contributor)
Walker, Alice (Contributor)
Wallace, Michele (Contributor)
Weathers, Mary Ann (Contributor)
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (Contributor)
White, E. Frances (Contributor)

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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought

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Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, History
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305.48896073 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Specific groups of women Indigenous women African American women
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E185.86 .W927 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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