Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 19

Episode 55:This week we’re finishing 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]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE - First half[Part 19]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVESecond Half - 00:31Discussion - 24:43Footnotes:14) 02:07Speech by Polga Fortunata. Quoted in Wendy Edmond and Suzie Fleming, editors, All Work and No Pay: Women, Housework and the Wages Due! (Bristol, England: Falling Wall Press, 1975), p. 18.15) 02:42Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (Bristol, England: Falling Wall Press, 1973).16) 03:28Ibid., p. 28.17) 04:00Mary Inman, In Woman’s Defense (Los Angeles: Committee to Organize the Advancement of Women, 1940). See also Inman, The Two Forms of Production Under Capitalism (Long Beach, Cal.: Published by the Author, 1964).18) 04:07Margaret Benston, “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” Monthly Review, Vol. XXI, No. 4 (September, 1969).19) 05:40“On the Economic Status of the Housewife.” Editorial Comment in Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 3 (March, 1974), p. 4.20) 06:26Hilda Bernstein, For Their Triumphs and For Their Tears: Women in Apartheid South Africa (London: International Defence and Aid Fund, 1975), p. 1321) 07:02Elizabeth Landis, “Apartheid and the Disabilities of Black Women in South Africa,” Objective: Justice, Vol. VII, No. 1 (January-March, 1975), p. 6. Excerpts from this paper were published in Freedomways, Vol. XV, No. 4, 1975.22) 07:36Bernstein, op. cit., p. 33.23) 07:49Landis, op. cit., p. 6.24) 09:43V. I. Lenin, “A Great Beginning,”pamphlet published in July, 1919. Quoted in Collected Works, Vol. 29 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966), p. 429.25) 10:55Released in the United States under the title Black Girl.26) 12:09Jackson, op. cit., pp. 236–237.27) 12:27Victor Perlo, Economics of Racism U.S.A., Roots of Black Inequality (New York: International Publishers, 1975), p. 24.28) 12:42Staples, The Black Woman in America, p. 27.29) 14:10Daily World, July 26, 1977, p. 9.30) 15:39Dalla Costa and James, op. cit., p. 40.31) 16:39Pat Sweeney, “Wages for Housework: The Strategy for Women’s Liberation,” Heresies, January, 1977, p. 104.32) 17:22Dalla Costa and James, op. cit., p. 41.33) 18:40Ann Oakley, The Sociology of Housework (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974).34) 20:05Ibid., p. 65.35) 20:31Ibid., p. 44.36) 21:02Ibid., p. 53.37) 21:26Psychology Today, Vol. X, No. 4 (September, 1976), p. 76.