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Erandi de Silva on Women, Race and Class

22 December, 2025

Angela Davis’s Women, Race, & Class critically examines U.S. history through the interconnected lenses of gender, race, and class, showing how these systems of oppression shaped social movements from slavery and abolition to women’s suffrage and the 1960s feminist movement. She argues that mainstream feminist movements were dominated by White, middle-class concerns and often excluded or marginalised the experiences of Black and working-class women. Davis highlights the roles of African American women in resistance movements and calls for a feminism that addresses the full complexity of structural inequality. This book is foundational for later intersectional analysis in feminist and social justice scholarship.

Erandi de Silva on Women, Race and Class

Angela Davis’s Women, Race, & Class critically examines U.S. history through the interconnected lenses of gender, race, and class, showing how these systems of oppression shaped social movements from slavery and abolition to women’s suffrage and the 1960s feminist movement. She argues that mainstream feminist movements were dominated by White, middle-class concerns and often excluded [&hel...