Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

41 reviews

leelaamanda's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Police brutality, Child death, Classism, Grief, Medical content, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Slavery, and Sexism

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Body shaming, Violence, Sexual violence, and Infidelity

natpark's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Sexism, Racism, and Sexual assault

biobeetle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Classism, Racism, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Xenophobia, Miscarriage, Violence, Abortion, War, Police brutality, Murder, Gun violence, and Infertility

Minor: Pregnancy

gatorskulls's review

challenging informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

This text is widely recommended for a reason. Angela Davis discusses the importance of accounting for intersecting identities when it comes to progressive movements and by extension showcases the importance of allyship with those that are different from you. As a middle class white person, it was incredibly eye-opening for me and I learned a lot. It's quite heavy and hard to get through at times. Definitely take your time to absorb the information at your own pace.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Violence, Sexism, Rape, and Racism

sissiemilia's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A fantastic and insightful look into the intersections of race, womanhood and class. A classic for a reason!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Slavery, Colonisation, Classism, Sexism, Hate crime, Abortion, Sexual violence, and Racism

abmochapman's review

challenging informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

This was not an easy read (as evidenced by the fact that it took me over a year to finish), but it was extremely important as a basis for understanding the historically inseparable nature of race, class, and gender oppression.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexism, Murder, Racism, Slavery, and Violence

sashasghost's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

a must read for all people

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical trauma, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Abortion, Classism, Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Slavery

Moderate: Ableism

jonezzzing's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Xenophobia, Slavery, Classism, Racism, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion and Adult/minor relationship

bookfriend8's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A fantastic book everyone must read. Davis is truly one of the most important authors of our time. She eloquently explains how women experience the world differently depending on their race and class. She does an important job at demonstrating that feminism is not effective unless it’s intersectional. This well-researched history book also shows how all inequalities and abuses present in modern societies are products of (monopoly) capitalism. If you’re still not convinced capitalism is the source of our problems, you need to pick this up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Murder, Hate crime, Violence, Sexism, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Abortion, Child death, Medical trauma, and Rape

stevia333k's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

i was thinking 4.75 stars due to how other books have made better citations to the points brought up, but i decided to round it up to 5 stars because so much of this holds up over 4 decades later!

i listened to readings & TTS of this book. it's from 1981 (such as we don't need to refer to fiction to call out paternalism anymore. we have books like "pushout" & "they were her property". that being said the reference to fiction on that point made me realize that history was conflated with whatever white supremacist bourgeois patriarchs allowed.) so some parts are outdated, but a ton of it holds up, partly because a lot of the white supremacist dynamics within feminist movements hadn't changed. like chapter 2 on white women organizing having paternalism problems articulated the problems i'm having right now to a tee, and the other chapters gave me information about corners i need to back out of (3 point turn).  this book is considered a foundation for intersectionality & uses the triple jeopardy model. basically this is a book that a lot of the people i listen to have read.

as i was reading this book i was also listening to "rest is resistance" by tricia hersey, which is giving me a lot of insight on abolitionism & preventing burnout & self-forgiveness.  i mention this because this book also critiques bourgeois praxis, and that's important because to say the least of it the labor theory of value, business expansion & imperialist expansion mean the wage gap will exist as long as there is capitalism because otherwise employers wouldn't be able to figure out ranking among themselves.

this was such a good book, i wish i had been given this book instead of being offered "ain't i a woman" by bell hooks & "luna" back in elementary school. like seriously, the covers & fictionality scared me on some of those, but omg. like my transfeminism came from me being 2 years old & in reconciling why racism is bad & feminism is good figured out that the genitalia is in fact a policing stereotype as other gender stereotypes, hence girlhood is separate from genitalia, and this book was speaking to that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Abortion, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, Ableism, Classism, Physical abuse, Slavery, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Torture