Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 14

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/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavisContent warnings for this week:RapeLynching[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 PERSPECTIVEFootnotes:1) 00:56Edwin 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:!5Gutman, op. cit., pp. 80–81 (note).3) 03:47Ibid.4) 04:49Aptheker, “The Negro Woman,” p. 12.5) 05:06Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 17.6) 08:11Ibid.7) 08:51Lerner, The Female Experience, op. cit., p. 91.8) 09:40Ibid.9) 10:22Ibid.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) 12:58Speech by Victoria Woodhull, “The Elixir of Life.” Quoted in Schneir, op. cit, p. 153.12) 13:23Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1975), p. 162.13) 14:06Melvin Steinfeld, Our Racist Presidents (San Ramon, California: Consensus Publishers, 1972), p. 212.14) 14:45Bonnie Mass, Population Target: The Political Economy of Population Control in Latin America (Toronto, Canada: Women’s Educational Press, 1977), p. 20.15) 15:34Linda Gordon, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America (New York: Penguin Books, 1976), p. 157.16) 15:46Ibid., p. 158.17) 15:52Ibid.18) 16:16Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography (New York: Dover Press, 1971), p. 75.19) 16:24Ibid., p. 90.20) 17:20Ibid., p. 91.21) 17:46Ibid., p. 92.22) 18:37Ibid., p. 106.23) 19:22Mass, op. cit., p. 27.24) 19:44Dancis, op. cit., p. 96.25) 20:10David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976), pp. 21–22.26) 21:22Mass, op. cit., p. 20.27) 21:48Gordon, op. cit., p. 281.28) 22:12Mass, op. cit., p. 20.29) 22:36Gordon, op. cit., p. 283.30) 24:00Herbert Aptheker, “Sterilization, Experimentation and Imperialism,” Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 1 (January, 1974), p. 44.31) 24:19Gena Corea, The Hidden Malpractice (New York: A Jove/HBJ Book, 1977). p. 149.32) 24:28 Gordon, op. cit., p. 332.33) 24:40Ibid., pp. 332–333.34) 25:44Aptheker, “Sterilization,” p. 38. See also Anne Braden, “Forced Sterilization: Now Women Can Fight Back,” Southern Patriot, September, 1973.35) 26:37Ibid.