Ain’t I a Woman (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gloria Watkins
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Politics, Sociology
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Racism, Sexism, Gender roles, Slavery or slaves, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Women’s movement, Women’s rights
Form and Content
Emerging out of Bell Hooks’s frustration with the failure of the black liberation movement and the women’s liberation movement to include the concerns of black women, Ain’t I a Woman: black women and feminism traces the oppressive forces of racism and sexism as they affect black women in the United States. It argues that race and sex are intertwined aspects of identity and cannot be understood apart from each other. Written from a feminist perspective, the book examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black...
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