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Plutôt que de réduire le féminisme à des revendications faites à l’État, au patron, au chef ou à papa, pour plus de lois, plus de “sécurité”, à n’être que le porte-drapeau ou le cache-misère du capitalisme, de tel ou tel gouvernement nationaliste, ces histoires des féminismes présents rappellent et font résonner ensemble nos vies féministes. Ce livre fonctionne comme un abécédaire, un manuel, une boîte à outils, un dictionnaire amoureux, dans lequel échanger des idées, affûter des armes, écouter des voix, partager des expériences et des pratiques, vibrer pour des luttes présentes. Il s’adresse à tous·tes : il contient à la fois des ressources et foisonne de références utiles, de notions, mais il est fabriqué par des plumes et des voix, des points de vue situés sur des retours d’expériences collectives, des itinéraires politiques et intimes, des réflexions et des rétrospections sur des parcours, des engagements, des révoltes et des espoirs. En pluralisant les styles, en se situant à la fois du côté de la théorie et de la pratique, de la création, des écritures au “nous” et au “je”, il témoigne de la force d’une approche féministe de l’histoire intellectuelle et politique. Il est dédié à toutes les résistantes anonymes au quotidien des violences les plus crasses, à celles qui embrasent les tribunaux, cassent des genoux et brisent les vitrines, à celles qui inventent mille tactiques imperceptibles pour survivre et se mettre à l’abri, à la mémoire de celles dont les noms recouvrent les murs de nos villes la nuit, à la puissance des collectifs qui se font, à ceux qui se sont défaits, qui se sont (re)constitués ailleurs ou autrement, à ce qui nous lie.

Dans le premier texte, à l'origine un discours prononcé en 2012 dans le cadre d'un programme dédié à l'essor du continent africain, l'écrivaine nigériane aborde avec lucidité et humour le sujet du féminisme. A travers des anecdotes issues de sa vie quotidienne, au Nigeria comme aux Etats-Unis, elle évoque les questions de l'inégalité des sexes et de l'image de soi des femmes.

Shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change Patricia Zavella experienced firsthand the trials and judgments imposed on a working professional mother of color: her own commitment to academia was questioned during her pregnancy, as she was shamed for having children "too young." And when she finally achieved her professorship, she felt out of place as one of the few female faculty members with children. These experiences sparked Zavella's interest in the movement for reproductive justice. In this book, she draws on five years of ethnographic research to explore collaborations among women of color engaged in reproductive justice activism. While there are numerous organizations focused on reproductive justice, most are racially specific, such as the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and Black Women for Wellness. Yet Zavella reveals that many of these organizations have built coalitions among themselves, sharing resources and supporting each other through different campaigns and struggles. While the coalitions are often regional-or even national-the organizations themselves remain racially or ethnically specific, presenting unique challenges and opportunities for the women involved. Zavella argues that these organizations provide a compelling model for negotiating across differences within constituencies. In the context of the war on women's reproductive rights and its disproportionate effect on women of color, and increased legal violence toward immigrants, The Movement for Reproductive Justice demonstrates that a truly intersectional movement built on grassroots organizing, culture shift work, and policy advocating can offer visions of strength, resiliency, and dignity for all.

The first book by Anna J. Cooper, A Voice From the South, presents strong ideals supporting racial and gender equality as well as economic progress. It’s a forward-thinking narrative that highlights many disparities hindering the African American community. Anna J. Cooper was an accomplished educator who used her influence to encourage and elevate African Americans. With A Voice From the South, she delivers a poignant analysis of the country’s affairs as they relate to Black people, specifically Black women. She stresses the importance of education, which she sees as a great equalizer. Cooper considers it a necessary investment in not only the individual but the community. She also criticizes the depictions of African Americans in literature by some of the day’s most popular authors. She calls for more realistic portrayals that are both honest yet positive. Cooper provides an unflinching critique of mainstream America as it relates to the Black population. A Voice From the South broaches pivotal topics such as women’s rights, segregation and the need for higher education. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of A Voice From the South is both modern and readable.

Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding "reproductive rights" to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought migrating from the community into the academy. Radical Reproductive Justice assembles two decades’ of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, creators of the human rights-based “reproductive justice” framework to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary framework asserts a woman's right to have children, to not have children, and to parent and provide for the children they have.

Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice—on their own behalf.Undivided Rights presents a textured understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing the experiences, priorities, and activism of women of color in the foreground. Using historical research, original organizational case studies, and personal interviews, the authors illuminate how women of color have led the fight to control their own bodies and reproductive destinies. Undivided Rights shows how women of color—-starting within their own Latina, African American, Native American, and Asian American communities—have resisted coercion of their reproductive abilities. Projected against the backdrop of the mainstream pro-choice movement and radical right agendas, these dynamic case studies feature the groundbreaking work being done by health and reproductive rights organizations led by women-of-color.The book details how and why these women have defined and implemented expansive reproductive health agendas that reject legalistic remedies and seek instead to address the wider needs of their communities. It stresses the urgency for innovative strategies that push beyond the traditional base and goals of the mainstream pro-choice movement—strategies that are broadly inclusive while being specific, strategies that speak to all women by speaking to each woman. While the authors raise tough questions about inclusion, identity politics, and the future of women’s organizing, they also offer a way out of the limiting focus on "choice."Undivided Rights articulates a holistic vision for reproductive freedom. It refuses to allow our human rights to be divvied up and parceled out into isolated boxes that people are then forced to pick and choose among.

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

Black women are generally displaced as victims of rape. The police response to the sexual assault of black women in general and lower-class black women in particular is illustrative of how sexual ideologies help construct complex social hierarchies that in turn structure rights. How the law currently deals with rape places black women outside of the narrative frames that legitimate entitlement. Rape continues to stand in for, and effectively obscure, other social, political, and economic concerns. Unpublished and often ignored, the rape narrative is a ripe site to supply oppositional interpretations of national experience and transmit some of the structural problems in the criminal justice system. Pulling from over two thousand “real” rape cases of low-income black women ignored and not investigated in Philadelphia between 1995 and 2000, this article reads black female rape narratives as case studies in order to discuss the way personal narratives of rape victims are structured by competing and overwhelming sociolegal narratives that undercut their reception. As the fastest growing prison population, the presence of the law to punish black women stands in stark contrast to the absence of the law to protect them.

A travers le regard d'une femme africaine sur ses sœurs occidentales, nos découvrons avec horreur la condition des femmes d'Afrique qui n'a guère changé en dépit des progrès. Qu'il s'agisse du non-accès à l'éducation dont sont encore privées beaucoup de petites filles, de l'excision (mutilation du plaisir chez la femme) ou de al dépendance économique, sociale et culturelle à l'homme, Calixthe l'Africaine dresse un noir tableau des combats qu'il reste à mener. L'autre part du discours à trait à "l'endormissement" de la femme occidentale ; ou plutôt, selon Calixthe, la femme a été endormie par l'homme qui depuis plusieurs années s'est transformé en agneau pour mieux renaître en loup. Calixthe Beyala lance un signal d'alarme à ses "sœurs" ne baissez pas les bras, tout reste à faire ; énormément chez nous en Afrique, beaucoup chez vous en Occident. Ecrit dans le style vif et alerte qui al caractérise, l'ouvrage de Calixthe ne recule pas devant les mots pour se faire entendre des femmes, et certainement, les réveiller. Calixthe Beyala est camerounaise. Ecrivain, elle vit et travaille en France. Mère de deux enfants, elle a la charge de nombreux enfants au Cameroun. Elle a publié plusieurs romans très remarqués dont "C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée", premier roman bouleversant en hommage à sa sœur morte à l'âge de 23 ans, symbole de la lutte que doit sans cesse mener la femme africaine, "Le petit prince de Belleville", "Maman a un amant" et "cet automne "Assèze l'Africaine". Le style et le caractère puissant de son œuvre font d'elle une des toutes premières romancières africaines.

En rassemblant et en présentant les œuvres de Stewart, Richardson offre aux lecteurices l'occasion d'étudier les pensées et les paroles de cette influente militante noire, précurseuse de Frederick Douglass et de Sojourner Truth et première noire américaine à donner des conférences pour la défense des droits des femmes, la plaçant dans le contexte du mouvement abolitionniste tourbillonnant.

Etude socio-historique de la condition des femmes noires aux Etats-Unis; aspect particulier de l'esclavage des femmes noires; persistance des problèmes après l'abolition de l'esclavage.