Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
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Word Count
54,000 words, Guess
Page Count
216 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100745313507
- ISBN-139780745313504
- Better World Books9780745313504
- Open LibraryOL28950766M
Classifications
- DDC305.4/2/08996073
Description
A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote *Ain't I a Woman* (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.
First Sentence
"In a retrospective examination of the black female slave experience, sexism looms as large as racism as an oppressive force in the lives of black women."
Excerpt
"In a retrospective examination of the black female slave experience, sexism looms as large as racism as an oppressive force in the lives of black women."
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