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readandfindout's review
4.25
Themes: 4.5 stars
Knowledge/perspective: 5 stars
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Violence
ben_t's review
4.5
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Hate crime
achingallover's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Infertility, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, and Xenophobia
marxlee's review against another edition
5.0
Agora ao que interessa; na primeira metade do livro acredito que pode ser um pouco difícil algumas pessoas conseguirem cair de cabeça na leitura já que desde a primeira página já temos a menção de acontecimentos históricos dos Estados Unidos que provavelmente não conhecemos, não estamos familiarizados e também com descrições fortes sobre a escravidão (também nos EUA). Já mais pra metade (e final, também) acredito que alguns também possam ficar meio confusos com nomes parecidos e acontecimentos já citados, eu fiquei um pouco. Não é tão confuso quanto eu talvez esteja fazendo parecer, mas pra mim foi um pouco e acredito que se alguém se encontrar com dificuldade de atenção e foco (como eu) encontre um pouco dessas dificuldades (que acredito que sejam mais do leitor que de quem escreveu).
Agora sobre o conteúdo em si, o livro é impressionante nos mostrando como lutas ocorrem, como assuntos se interligam e muitas, muitas coisas. Meus capítulos preferidos são os 4 últimos, são impressionantes!
Recomendo a leitura aos 4 ventos. E a edição é linda demais.
Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Slavery
Minor: Rape and Violence
sweetmusic22's review
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, and Hate crime
Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism
Angela Davis is one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. Her writing style is so articulate here in this book. I'd recommend this book to anybody who wants to learn about the interconnection between racism, sexism, and class structure. It challenges you (the reader) to understand (historically) how black women have always been at the forefront of civil rights and women's rights from the beginnings of slavery, abolitionism to women's liberation of the 60s and 70s. Reading this book (especially if you're a white woman) will hopefully explain why black women to this day still face racism and misogyny.sherbertwells's review
4.0
“If and when a historian sets the record straight on the experiences of enslaved Black women, she (or he) will have performed an inestimable service. It is not for the sake of historical accuracy alone that such a study should be conducted, for lessons can be gleaned from the slave era which will shed light upon Black women’s and all women’s current battle for emancipation” (4)
“In passing the 1893 resolution, the suffragists might as well have announced that if they, as white women of the middle classes and bourgeoisie, were give the power of the vote, they would rapidly subdue the three main elements of the U.S. working class: Black people, immigrants and uneducated white workers. It was these three groups of people whose labor was exploited and whose lives were sacrificed by the Morgans, Rockefellers, Mellons, Vanderbilts—by the new class of monopoly capitalists who were ruthlessly establishing their industrial empires” (116)
In fact, I want to reread it. I want to highlight its important passages and write in its margins. I want to study and internalize its messages, to share it and discuss it with my friends. Reading Women, Race & Class has taught me that I love nonfiction books in a different way than their narrative counterparts. The former love is quieter, but no less ardent.
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Violence
puffybus21's review
4.5
The only reason I'm giving this book 4.5 stars and not 5 is purely because this books restates ideas that are generally already known in feminist circles. That being said, it was truly ahead of its time. Had I read this book a few years ago, before I was as well-versed in social justice issues as I am now, I would have definitely given this book 5 stars.
Graphic: Hate crime and Slavery