Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 4

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]3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNFirst half Reading – 00:22[Part 5]3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (second 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 - 13]10. COMMUNIST WOMEN [Part 14 - 15]11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST [Part 16 - 17]12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS [Part 18-19]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE Footnotes:1) – 01:01Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, p. 62.2) – 02:06Ibid., p. 60 (note).3) – 02:57Judith Hole and Ellen Levine, “The First Feminists,”in Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine and Anita Rapone, editors, Radical Feminism (New York: Quadrangle, 1973), p. 6.4) – 03:18Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815–1897 (New York: Schocken Books, 1917). See Chapter V.5) – 03:54Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, p. 62.6) – 04:23Ibid., p. 61.7) – 04:36Ibid.8) – 04:48Ibid.9) – 05:03Charles Remond, “The World Anti-Slavery Conference, 1840,”Liberator, (October 16, 1840).Reprinted in Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 196.10) – 05:37Ibid.11) – 05:53Ibid.12) – 05:59 Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, p. 53.13) – 06:39Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 33.14) – 08:07Ibid., pp. 147–148.15) – 10:38Douglass, op. cit., p. 473.16) – 11:08Flexner, op. cit., p. 76. See also Allen, op. cit., p. 133.17) – 12:15North Star, July 28, 1848. Reprinted in Philip Foner, editor, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 1 (New York: International Publishers, 1950), p. 321.18) – 12:50S. Jay Walker, “Frederick Douglass and Woman Suffrage,” Black Scholar, Vol. IV, Nos. 6–7 (March-April, 1973), p. 26.19) – 13:24Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 149.20) – 13:49Ibid.21) – 14:04Miriam Gurko, The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Women’s Rights Movement (New York: Schocken Books, 1976), p. 105.22) – 15:14See “Declaration of Sentiments” in Papachristou, op. cit., pp. 24–25.23) – 15:39Ibid., p. 25.24) – 15:52Ibid.25) – 17:13Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, Susan Reverby, editors, America’s Working Women: A Documentary History—1600 to the Present (New York: Random House, 1976), p. 46.26) – 18:29Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 66.27) – 19:04Ibid., p. 67.28) – 19:53Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 66.29) – 20:21Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 74.30) – 21:23Ibid., p. 103.31) – 22:36Ibid. p. 104.32) – 23:02Papachristou, op. cit., p. 26.33) – 23:40Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 335.