Words of Fire (2011)
Words of Fire
“black women both shape the world and are shaped by it.... [they] create their own black feminist theory. They come to feminist theory and practice out of the oppression they experience as people who are poor and black and women.... black feminism has evolved historically over centuries, outside traditional white feminine roles, white social institutions, and white feminist cultural theory.
—KESHO YVONNE SCOTT, The Habit of Surviving The struggle for black women’s liberation that began to emerg...e in the mid-1960s is a continuation of both intellectual and activist traditions whose seeds were sown during slavery and flowered during the antislavery fervor of the 1830s. When a small group of free black “feminist-abolitionists” in the North surfaced during the early nineteenth century, among whom were Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances E. W. Harper, the history of African American feminism began.1 Their involvement in abolitionist and other reform movements as lecturers, writers, and journalists —traditionally male domains—met with resistance and violated the Victorian ethic of “true womanhood,”MoreLess
—KESHO YVONNE SCOTT, The Habit of Surviving The struggle for black women’s liberation that began to emerg...e in the mid-1960s is a continuation of both intellectual and activist traditions whose seeds were sown during slavery and flowered during the antislavery fervor of the 1830s. When a small group of free black “feminist-abolitionists” in the North surfaced during the early nineteenth century, among whom were Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances E. W. Harper, the history of African American feminism began.1 Their involvement in abolitionist and other reform movements as lecturers, writers, and journalists —traditionally male domains—met with resistance and violated the Victorian ethic of “true womanhood,”MoreLess
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