Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 18

Episode 54: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]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 - 15]11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST[Part 16 - 17]12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS[Part 18 - This week]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVEFirst half - [Part 19]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE - Second HalfFootnotes:1) 01:05Oakley, op. cit., p. 6.2) 01:39Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, “The Manufacture of Housework,” in Socialist Revolution, No. 26, Vol. 5, No. 4 (October–December 1975), p. 6.3) 05:34Frederick Engels, Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, edited, with an introduction, by Eleanor Burke Leacock (New York: International Publishers, 1973). See Chapter II. Leacock’s introduction to this edition contains numerous enlightening observations on Engels’ theory of the historical emergence of male supremacy.4) 08:47Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 12.5) 09:45Ehrenreich and English, “The Manufacture of Housework,” p. 9.6) 10:19Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 12.7) 10:41Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 17.8) 11:35Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 13.9) 13:09Ehrenreich and English, “The Manufacture of Housework,”p. 10.10) 17:24Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Home: Its Work and Its Influence (Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Reprint of the 1903 edition), pp. 30–31.11) 17:45Ibid., p. 10.12) 18:09Ibid., p. 217.13) 20:39DuBois, Darkwater, p. 185.