Black Women′s Intellectual Traditions – Speaking Their Minds

Kristin Waters is professor of philosophy emerita at Worcester State University, a scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, and the author of Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought. Carol B. Conaway is associate professor emerita of women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire and an expert on the press and race relations.

• Preface to New EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Carol B. Conaway and Kristin WatersPART I: MARIA W. STEWART: BLACK FEMINISM IN PUBLIC PLACES1. Maria W. Stewart: America’s First Black Woman Political Writer - Marilyn Richardson2. Maria W. Stewart and the Rhetoric of Black Preaching: Perspectives on Womanism and Black Nationalism - Lena Ampadu3. A Woman Made of Words: The Rhetorical Invention of Maria W. Stewart - Ebony A. Utley4. “No Throw-away Woman”: Maria W. Stewart as a Forerunner of Black Feminist Thought - R. Dianne BartlowPART II: INCIDENTS IN THE LIVES: FREE WOMEN AND SLAVES5. “Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters”: Narratives of Slave and Free Women before Emancipation - Hazel V. Carby6. Literary Societies: The Work of Self-Improvement and Racial Uplift - Michelle N. Garfield7. “A Sign unto This Nation”: Sojourner Truth, History, Orature, and Modernity - Carla L. PetersonPART III: HARPERS, HOPKINS, AND SHADD CARY: WRITING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM8. Narrative Patternings of Resistance in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces - Vanessa Holford Diana9. “We Are All Bound Up Together”: Frances Harper and Feminist Theory - Valerie Palmer-Mehta10. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: A Visionary of the Black Press - Carol B. ConawayPART IV: ANNA JULIA COOPER: A VOICE11. Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the South - Mary Helen Washington12. A Singing Something: Womanist Reflections on Anna Julia Cooper - Karen Baker-Fletcher13. Arguing from Difference: Cooper, Emerson, Guizot, and a More Harmonious America - Janice W. FernheimerPART V: LEADERSHIP, ACTIVISM, AND THE GENIUS OF IDA B. WELLS14. “I Rose and Found My Voice”: Claiming “Voice” in the Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells - Olga Idriss Davis15. The Emergence of a Black Feminist Leadership Model: African-American Women and Political Activism in the Nineteenth Century - Melina Abdullah16. Shadowboxing: Liberation Limbos—Ida B. Wells - Joy JamesPART VI: BLACK FEMINIST THEORY: FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTY-FIRST17. Some Core Themes of Nineteenth-Century Black Feminism - Kristin Waters18. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins19. Black Feminist Theory: Charting a Course for Black Women’s Studies in Political Science - Evelyn M. SimienSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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