Summary of Angela Y. Davis's Women, Race, & Class

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The debate about slavery has continued to resurface throughout the decades, and historians have continued to argue about what it actually meant to be a slave. The most recent books have failed to address the experiences of Black women during slavery.
#2 The typical female slave was a houseservant, but in reality, the majority of slave women were field workers. The oppression of women was identical to the oppression of men.
#3 While the slave system treated women as second class citizens, it also made sure to exploit their reproductive capabilities. Because slave women were not mothers, their children could be sold away from them.
#4 The slaveowner would calculate the yield of his slaves in terms of the average rates of productivity he demanded. Women were generally rated as full hands, unless they had been assigned to be breeders or sucklers.

Sujets

• Women's Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 30 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669394396
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Angela Y. Davis's Women Race Class
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The debate about slavery has continued to resurface throughout the decades, and historians have continued to argue about what it actually meant to be a slave. The most recent books have failed to address the experiences of Black women during slavery.

#2

The typical female slave was a houseservant, but in reality, the majority of slave women were field workers. The oppression of women was identical to the oppression of men.

#3

While the slave system treated women as second class citizens, it also made sure to exploit their reproductive capabilities. Because slave women were not mothers, their children could be sold away from them.

#4

The slaveowner would calculate the yield of his slaves in terms of the average rates of productivity he demanded. Women were generally rated as full hands, unless they had been assigned to be breeders or sucklers.

#5

Women were not too feminine to work in coal mines, iron foundries, or lumberjacks. They were often used as substitutes for beasts of burden to pull trams in the Southern mines.

#6

The American economy was built on industrialization, which stripped many white women of the opportunity to work. The ideology of femininity was created as a by-product of industrialization, and it was disseminated through the new ladies’ magazines and romantic novels.

#7

The Black family was not destroyed by slavery, as many white sociologists claimed. It was instead was severely damaged by the separation of families during slavery, but it was still able to survive and develop despite that.

#8

The slave family was extremely complex, and did not follow the typical matriarchal or patriarchal roles that were present in white families. The mother’s role was more important than the father’s, and they both shared responsibilities within the family.

#9

The domestic life of slaves was important, but it was also exaggerated for the sake of the slave owners. While white women were treated as mere housewives, black women were not. They were essential to the survival of their communities.

#10

The story of the slave women as wives requires indirect examination. While there is a touch of male supremacy in Genovese’s analysis, he clearly recognizes that women often defended their men from the slave system’s attempts to demean them.

#11

Women were often the first to flee slavery, and they did so in large numbers. Many were successful, though many were captured.

#12

The maroon communities, made up of fugitive slaves and their descendants, were found throughout the South as early as 1642. They were havens for fugitives, and served as bases for marauding expeditions against nearby plantations.

#13

The institutionalized pattern of rape during slavery was not just an expression of white men’s sexual urges, but also a weapon of domination and repression. It was used to demoralize slave women and their men, and break the chain of equality between the two sexes.

#14

While many slaves spoke about the high incidence of rape and sexual coercion, the issue of sexual abuse has been largely ignored in the traditional literature on slavery.

#15

While white women made tremendous contributions to the abolitionist movement, they often failed to grasp the complexity of the slave woman’s situation.