Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 16

Leftist Reading

Episode 52:

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

Content warnings for this week:
Birth control
Abortion
Self induced abortion
Infanticide
Rape
Racism

[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 - This Week]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
First half - 00:40

[Part 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS - Second half

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 05:39
Edwin M. Gold et al., “Therapeutic Abortions in New York City: A Twenty-Year Review” in American Journal of Public Health, Vol. LV (July, 1965), pp. 964–972. Quoted in Lucinda Cisla, “Unfinished Business: Birth Control and Women’s Liberation,”in Robin Morgan, editor, Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York: Vintage Books, 1970), p. 261. Also quoted in Robert Staples, The Black Woman in America (Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1974), p. 146.

2) 07:12
Gutman, op. cit., pp. 80–81 (note).

3) 07:19
Ibid.

4) 07:51
Aptheker, “The Negro Woman,”p. 12.

5) 10:38
Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 17.

6) 11:01
Ibid.

7) 11:31
Lerner, The Female Experience, op. cit., p. 91.

8) 11:48
Ibid.

9) 11:56
Ibid.

10) 12:24
“Marriage of Lucy Stone under Protest” appeared in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1. Quoted in Schneir, op, cit., p. 104.

11) 13:12
Speech by Victoria Woodhull, “The Elixir of Life.” Quoted in Schneir, op. cit, p. 153.

12) 15:07
Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1975), p. 162.

13) 15:49
Melvin Steinfeld, Our Racist Presidents (San Ramon, California: Consensus Publishers, 1972), p.212.

14) 16:12
Bonnie Mass, Population Target: The Political Economy of Population Control in Latin America (Toronto, Canada: Women’s Educational Press, 1977), p. 20.

15) 16:59
Linda Gordon, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America (New York: Penguin Books, 1976), p. 157.

16) 17:45
Ibid., p. 158.

17) 18:54
Ibid.