Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions
Speaking Their Minds
Kristin B. Waters, ed.; Carol B. Conaway, ed.

University of Vermont Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments • Introduction - Carol B. Conaway and Kristin Waters
• MARIA W. STEWART: BLACK FEMINISM IN PUBLIC PLACES • Maria W. Stewart: America’s First Black Woman Political Writer - Marilyn Richardson • Maria W. Stewart and the Rhetoric of Black Preaching: Perspectives on Womanism and Black Nationalism - Lena Ampadu • A Woman Made of Words: The Rhetorical Invention of Maria W. Stewart - Ebony A. Utley • “No Throw-away Woman”: Maria W. Stewart as a Forerunner of Black Feminist Thought - R. Dianne Bartlow
• INCIDENTS IN THE LIVES: FREE WOMEN AND SLAVES • "Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters”: Narratives of Slave and Free Women before Emancipation - Hazel V. Carby • Literary Societies: The Work of Self-Improvement and Racial Uplift - Michelle N. Garfield • “A Sign unto This Nation”: Sojourner Truth, History, Orature, and Modernity - Carla L. Peterson
• HARPERS, HOPKINS, AND SHADD CARY: WRITING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM • Narrative Patternings of Resistance in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces - Vanessa Holford Diana
• “We Are All Bound Up Together”: Frances Harper and Feminist Theory - Valerie Palmer-Mehta • Mary Ann Shadd Cary: A Visionary of the Black Press - Carol B. Conaway
• ANNA JULIA COOPER: A VOICE
• Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the South - Mary Helen Washington • A Singing Something: Womanist Reflections on Anna Julia Cooper - Karen Baker-Fletcher
• Arguing from Difference: Cooper, Emerson, Guizot, and a More Harmonious America - Janice W. Fernheimer
• LEADERSHIP, ACTIVISM, AND THE GENIUS OF IDA B. WELLS • “I Rose and Found My Voice”: Claiming “Voice” in the Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells - Olga Idriss Davis • The Emergence of a Black Feminist Leadership Model: African-American Women and Political Activism in the Nineteenth Century - Melina Abdullah • Shadowboxing: Liberation Limbos—Ida B. Wells - Joy James
• BLACK FEMINIST THEORY: FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTY-FIRST • Some Core Themes of Nineteenth-Century Black Feminism - Kristin Waters
• The Politics of Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
• Black Feminist Theory: Charting a Course for Black Women’s Studies in Political Science - Evelyn M. Simien • Selected Bibliography • Notes on Contributors • Index




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