Synopsis
A historical study arguing that race, gender, and class oppression are interlocking, and that mainstream feminism often neglected Black and working-class women.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workWomen's liberation cannot be separated from struggles against racism and capitalism, since these systems of oppression reinforce one another.
It insists that any feminism ignoring race and class will serve only the privileged, demanding an integrated emancipatory politics.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with bell hooks, Feminist Theory.
Reading note
Read it as engaged historical argument, attentive to its retelling of abolition, suffrage, and labor history.
Best paired with
bell hooks, Feminist Theory