Ebook: Words of fire: an anthology of African-American feminist thought

"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term "feminism." And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses of Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances W.E. Harper of the early nineteenth century, and the work of women such as the late Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and bell hooks who stand on the threshold of the twenty-first century ...";Beginnings: In defense of our race and sex, 1831-1900 -- Triumph and tribulation: Defining Black womanhood, 1920-1957 -- Civil rights and women's liberation: Racial/sexual politics in the angry decades -- Beyond the margins: BLack women claiming feminism -- The body politic: Sexuality, violence, and reproduction -- Reading the academy -- Discourses of resistance: Interrogating mainstream feminism and Black nationalism.