Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History - Paperback

by Bettina Aptheker (Author)

Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History is a groundbreaking collection of essays by prominent feminist scholar and historian Bettina Aptheker. Emerging from her dissertation research, this work examines the interconnected systems of racial, sexual, and class oppression that have shaped the experiences of women in American history. Through careful historical analysis and feminist scholarship, Aptheker explores how race, sex, and class work together to form complex systems of domination and resistance in the American historical context. The essays investigate women's community roles, activism, and agency while centering the lived experiences of women, particularly Black women, across different historical periods. This seminal work contributes to African American women's history and feminist historiography, bridging women's studies with critical analysis of historical structures and social movements. An essential text for those interested in intersectional approaches to American history and women's studies.

Author Biography

An internationally recognized political activist, BETTINA APTHEKER is assistant professor of women's studies at Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Academic Rebellion in the United States: The Trial of Angela Davis, editor of Lynching and Rape: An Exchange of Views, by Jane Addams and Ida B. Wells, and coeditor with Angela Davis of If They Come In The Morning: Voices of Resistance. Aptheker's latest book is Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience, published by the University of Massachusetts Press.