We are of course particularly committed to working on those struggles in which race, sex, and class are simultaneous factors in oppression. Issues and projects that collective members have actually worked on are sterilization abuse, abortion rights, battered women, rape and health care. Some images used in this set are licensed under the Creative Commons through Flickr.com.Click to see the original works with their full license. We reprint that version here in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of its publication by Monthly Review Press. The inclusiveness of our politics makes us concerned with any situation that impinges upon the lives of women, Third World and working people. Many reactionary and destructive acts have been done in the name of achieving correct political goals. Since 1977, that term has been used, abused, and reconfigured into something foreign to its creators. She and my father met in high school, dated through college, and eventually landed in graduate school, at SUNY Buffalo, in the early nineteen-seventies. The overwhelming majority of Black women were working-class and were forced to labor both outside and inside their homes. After the C.R.C. In the case of Black women this is a particularly repugnant, dangerous, threatening, and therefore revolutionary concept because it is obvious from looking at all the political movements that have preceded us that anyone is more worthy of liberation than ourselves. But we do not have the misguided notion that it is their maleness, per sei.e., their biological malenessthat makes them what they are. 22, No. Although we are in essential agreement with Marxs theory as it applied to the very specific economic relationships he analyzed, we know that his analysis must be extended further in order for us to understand our specific economic situation as Black women. Still, hundreds of women have been active at different times during the three-year existence of our group. Was the Conspiracy That Gripped New York in 1741 Real? Many Black women have a good understanding of both sexism and racism, but because of the everyday constrictions of their lives, cannot risk struggling against them both. we were told in the same breath to be quiet both for the sake of being ladylike and to make us less objectionable in the eyes of white people. 271-280, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, By: Review by: Liz Kennedy , June Lapidus, Feminist Studies, Vol.
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