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maddiesimpson's review against another edition
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Wonderful, excellent, insightful. Angela Davis is a legend and this book is absolutely essential to understanding and engaging with intersectional feminism
mhazz's review against another edition
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dummyhuey's review against another edition
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remoir's review against another edition
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I can't believe I forgot how hard Angela fucks with communism (I know lmao). Really comprehensively ties the threads of oppression in a way I've struggled to articulate. What a shame class conciousness has regressed so much in 40 years
outcolder's review against another edition
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Wow. I thought this would be kind of dated or something but unfortunately it isn't. Anyway a lot of it is history, from slavery and reconstruction, through the "first wave" and the suffragettes, on up to the 1970s. It's just great to see all three forms of domination (or whatever you want to call the big three of gender, "race," and class) given such equal measure. I had thought Davis would be all Marxian and try to prove that class is the alpha and omega but she's too clever for that. She also has no problem criticizing Marxist parties of the past or past (s)heroes for letting racism or sexism mess up their program.
The heaviest chapter in here, the most WTF chapter in here, is definitely the one on reproductive rights. The stuff in there about "population control" as opposed to birth control... about sterilization abuse... that is heavy as hell, man. I wish I had read that a long time ago, I would have been better prepared in the 1990s when people were talking about those hormone implants. I remember some jaw-dropping conversations back then with people who were saying birth control implants should be mandatory for certain people. It seems to me that an analysis of that sterilization abuse stuff today, with the kind of critical eye that Davis would bring, would be devastating. I mean, if it was that off the hook in the 1970s... she cites one source that said that 35% of Puerto Rican women had been sterilized... what must it be like today after the rise of all these handmaid's tale politicians we've got now. And, as she argues in this book, engaging with the history of eugenics and sterilization would help (white) feminists today who are advocating for reproductive rights, especially access to abortions, to frame their arguments in a way less likely to turn off working women and women of color.
The heaviest chapter in here, the most WTF chapter in here, is definitely the one on reproductive rights. The stuff in there about "population control" as opposed to birth control... about sterilization abuse... that is heavy as hell, man. I wish I had read that a long time ago, I would have been better prepared in the 1990s when people were talking about those hormone implants. I remember some jaw-dropping conversations back then with people who were saying birth control implants should be mandatory for certain people. It seems to me that an analysis of that sterilization abuse stuff today, with the kind of critical eye that Davis would bring, would be devastating. I mean, if it was that off the hook in the 1970s... she cites one source that said that 35% of Puerto Rican women had been sterilized... what must it be like today after the rise of all these handmaid's tale politicians we've got now. And, as she argues in this book, engaging with the history of eugenics and sterilization would help (white) feminists today who are advocating for reproductive rights, especially access to abortions, to frame their arguments in a way less likely to turn off working women and women of color.
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