Woman's legacy : essays on race, sex, and class in American history / Bettina Aptheker
1982, 1st edition. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #389071
ISBN: 0870233645
Physical description; 177 pp.; 24 cm. Contents; Woman's legacy: a beginning -- Abolitionism, woman's rights and the battle over the fifteenth amendment -- Woman suffrage and the crusade against lynching, 1890-1920 -- On "The damnation of women": W.E.B. Du Bois and a theory for woman's emancipation -- Quest for dignity: Black women in the professions, 1865-1900 -- Domestic labor: patterns in black and white -- The matriarchal mirage: the Moynihan connection historical perspective. Subjects; African American women Political activity History. Economic conditions. Social conditions. Sexism Economic aspects United States. Racism against Black people. Racial justice. Feminism.
Price: €25.00