We Were There (eBook)

The Third World Women's Alliance and the Second Wave

Patricia Romney (Autor)

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2021
The Feminist Press at CUNY (Verlag)
978-1-952177-83-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Fifty years ago, the Third World Womens Alliance passionately insisted on interconnections among racism, sexism, and capitalism, inspiring radical analytical frameworks and organizing strategies associated with contemporary conceptions of feminism. We are deeply indebted to Patricia Romney for helping to generate a record of the Alliances pioneering contributions and thus for ensuring that their revolutionary legacies live on.Angela Y. Davis, author ofFreedom Is a Constant StruggleFrom 1970 to 1980, the Third World Womens Alliance lived the dream of third world feminism. The small bicoastal organization was one of the earliest groups advocating for what came to be known as intersectional activism, arguing that women of color faced a triple jeopardy of race, gender, and class oppression. Rooted in the Black civil rights movement, the TWWA pushed the womens movement to address issues such as sterilization abuse, infant mortality, welfare, and wage exploitation, and challenged third world activist organizations to address sexism in their ranks. Widely recognized as the eras primary voice for women of color, this alliance across ethnic and racial identities was unique then and now.Interweaving oral history, scholarly and archival research, and first-person memoir,We Were Theredocuments how the TWWA shaped and defined second wave feminism. Highlighting the essential contributions of women of color to the justice movements of the 1970s, this historical resource will inspire activists today and tomorrow, reminding a new generation that solidarity is the only way forward.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: 1970s Women’s March • Ana Celia Zentella • Angela Davis • Ann-Ellice Parker • Barbara Morita • Barbara Webb • bicoastal seventies feminism • Black civil rights female leaders • Black feminist internationalism • Black Power Movement women • Black Women’s Liberation Committee • Brenda Boho Beato • Chai Ming Huei • Cheryl Johnson • Christine Choy • Concha Delgado • darker nations • feminist coalition politics • Frances M. Beal • Georgette Ioup • global sisterhood books • intersectional feminism seventies • Lenore French • Linda Burnham • Melanie Tervalon • Michelle Mouton • Milagros Perez Huth • Miriam Ching Yoon Louie • Nancy Wong TWWA • Perry League • Postcolonial feminism • Rebecca Carrillo • Renata Tervalon • Seattle Third World Women • second wave feminism intersectionality • Shirley Nakao • Stella Holmes Hughes • transnational feminism books • transnational feminist movement • Triple Jeopardy magazine • US feminists of color • Vicki Alexander • wage exploitation third world women • western feminism and third world feminism • women antiwar movement • women of color 1970s • women of color activists • women's liberation movement Asia • women’s liberation movement books • women’s liberation movement Latin America • Women’s Strike for Equality • Zelma Toro
• ISBN-10: 1-952177-83-9 / 1952177839
• ISBN-13: 978-1-952177-83-5 / 9781952177835