Women, Race, & Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Race, & Class write by Angela Y. Davis. This book was released on 2011-06-29. Women, Race, & Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.
Women without Class
Women without Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women without Class write by Julie Bettie. This book was released on 2014-09-18. Women without Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California’s Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head, asking what cultural gestures are involved in the performance of class, and how class subjectivity is constructed in relationship to color, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. A new introduction contextualizes the book for the contemporary moment and situates it within current directions in cultural theory. Investigating the cultural politics of how inequalities are both reproduced and challenged, Bettie examines the discursive formations that provide a context for the complex identity performances of contemporary girls. The book’s title refers at once to young working-class women who have little cultural capital to enable class mobility; to the fact that analyses of class too often remain insufficiently transformed by feminist, ethnic, and queer studies; and to the failure of some feminist theory itself to theorize women as class subjects. Women without Class makes a case for analytical and political attention to class, but not at the expense of attention to other social formations.
Presumed Incompetent
Presumed Incompetent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Presumed Incompetent write by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. This book was released on 2012-06-15. Presumed Incompetent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America.
Women, Culture & Politics
Women, Culture & Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Culture & Politics write by Angela Y. Davis. This book was released on 2011-06-22. Women, Culture & Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.
Gender, Race, and Class in Media
Gender, Race, and Class in Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Race, and Class in Media write by Gail Dines. This book was released on 2003. Gender, Race, and Class in Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender, Race and Class in Media examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities. Through analyses of popular mass media entertainment genres, such as talk shows, soap operas, television sitcoms, advertising and pornography, students are invited to engage in critical mass media scholarship. A comprehensive introductory section outlines the book′s integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: the political economy of production, textual analysis and audience response. The readings include a dozen new original essays, edited for maximum accessibility. The book provides: - A comprehensive, critical introduction to Media Studies - An analysis of race that is integrated into all chapters - Articles on Cultural Studies that are accessible to undergraduates - An extensive bibliography and section on media resources - Expanded coverage of "queer" representations in mass media - A new section on the violence debates - A new section on the Internet Together with new section introductions, these provide a comprehensive critical introduction to mass media studies.
