Named after the famous speech by Sojourner Truth, this must-read by bell hooks discusses black women’s struggle with U.S. racism and sexism since the time of slavery and doesn’t shirk from how white middle- and upper-class feminists have at times failed poor and non-white women.

In this classic study, cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, Ain't I a Woman is deeply critical of the racism inherent in the thought of many middle-class white feminists who have fail...(展开全部)

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black woman during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the feminist movement, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist...(展开全部)

Named after the famous speech by Sojourner Truth, this must-read by bell hooks discusses black women’s struggle with U.S. racism and sexism since the time of slavery and doesn’t shirk from how white middle- and upper-class feminists have at times failed poor and non-white women.

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century's. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman ...(展开全部)

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century's. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman ...(展开全部)

' ...methodologically innovative ...precise and perceptive and conscious ...' - "Text and Performance Quarterly". '"Woman, Native, Other" is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women...(展开全部)

' ...methodologically innovative ...precise and perceptive and conscious ...' - "Text and Performance Quarterly". '"Woman, Native, Other" is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women...(展开全部)

"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended... " --Choice ..". the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to win the struggles thrust upon us by the 'new world order' of the 1990s." --New Directions for Women "This surely is a book for any...(展开全部)

海伦·刘易斯（Helen Lewis） 英国记者、作家，《大西洋》杂志特约撰稿人，《新政治家》杂志前副主编。曾为《卫报》《星期日泰晤士报》《纽约时报》等媒体撰稿，主持BBC广播四台的多档节目。著有《难缠的女人》《天才神话》。 +++ 【译者简介】 陈薇薇 自由译者。从事翻译十余载，译有《法国简史》《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。