The trouble between us : an uneasy history of white and Black women in the feminist movement /

"Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an inte...

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Main Author: Breines, Wini
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Together and apart : women and SNCC
  • 2. Hope and anger : Black women and Black power
  • 3. Learning about racism : white socialist feminism and Bread and Roses
  • 4. Alone : Black socialist feminism and the Combahee River Collective
  • 5. Apart and together : Boston, race, and feminism in the 1970s and early 1980s
  • Epilogue.