Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 17

Leftist Reading

Episode 53:

Content Warnings:
Abortion
Self Induced Abortion
Death from a medical procedure
Eugenics
Racism
Ableism
Forced sterilisation
Forced Sterilisation as governmental policy
Medical Abuse
Medical Malpractice

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Content warnings for this week:
Birth control
Abortion
Self induced abortion
Infanticide
Rape
Racism

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS - First half

[Part 17 - This Week]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
Second half -
Discussion -

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
18)
Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography (New York: Dover Press, 1971), p. 75.

19)
Ibid., p. 90.

20)
Ibid., p. 91.

21)
Ibid., p. 92.

22)
Ibid., p. 106.

23)
Mass, op. cit., p. 27.

24)
Dancis, op. cit., p. 96.

25)
David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976), pp. 21–22.

26)
Mass, op. cit., p. 20.

27)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 281.

28)
Mass, op. cit., p. 20.

29)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 283.

30)
Herbert Aptheker, “Sterilization, Experimentation and Imperialism,” Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 1 (January, 1974), p. 44.

31)
Gena Corea, The Hidden Malpractice (New York: A Jove/HBJ Book, 1977). p. 149.

32)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 332.

33)
Ibid., pp. 332–333.

34)
Aptheker, “Sterilization,”p. 38. See also Anne Braden, “Forced Sterilization: Now Women Can Fight Back,” Southern Patriot, September, 1973.

35)
Ibid.

36)
Jack Slater, “Sterilization, Newest Threat to the Poor,” Ebony, Vol. XXVIII, No. 12 (October, 1973), p. 150.

37)
Braden, op. cit.

38)
Les Payne, “Forced Sterilization for the Poor?” San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 1974.

39)
Harold X., “Forced Sterilization Pervades South,” Muhammed Speaks, October 10, 1975.

40)
Slater, op. cit.

41)
Payne, op. cit.

42)
Ibid.

43)
Ibid.

44)
Aptheker, “Sterilization,” p. 40.

45)
Payne, op. cit.

46)
Aptheker, “Sterilization,” p. 48.

47)
Arlene Eisen, “They’re Trying to Take Our Future—Native American Women and Sterilization,” The Guardian, March 23, 1972.

48)
Ibid.

49)
Ibid.

50)
Quoted in a pamphlet issued by the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse, Box A244, Cooper Station, New York 10003.

51)
Ibid.

52)
Ibid.

53)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 338.

54)
Ibid.

55)
Mass, op. cit., p. 92.

56)
Ibid., p. 91.

57)
Gordon, op. cit., p. 401. See also pamphlet issued by CESA.

58)
Mass, op. cit., p. 108.

59)
Rahemah Aman, “Forced Sterilization,” Union Wage, March 4, 1978.

60)
Ibid.