Conaway, Carol B.; Waters, Kristin B.

Black Women's Intellectual Traditions : Speaking Their Minds

Acknowledgments xi Introduction CAROL B. CONAWAY AND KRISTIN WATERS 1 Part 1: Maria W Stewart: Black Feminism in Public Places 1. Maria W. Stewart: America's First Black Woman Political Writer MARILYN RICHARDSON 13 2. Maria W. Stewart and the Rhetoric of Black Preaching: Perspectives on Womanism and Black Nationalism LENA AMPADU 38 3. A Woman Made of Words: The Rhetorical Invention of Maria W. Stewart EBONY A. UTLEY 55 4. "No Throw-away Woman": Maria W. Stewart as a Forerunner of Black Feminist Thought R. DIANNE BARTLOW 72 Part II: Incidents in the Lives: Free Women and Slaves 5. "Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters": Narratives of Slave and Free Women before Emancipation HAZEL V. CARBY 91 6. Literary Societies: The Work of Self-Improvement and Racial Uplift MICHELLE N. GARFIELD 113 7. "A Sign unto This Nation": Sojourner Truth, History, Orature, and Modernity CARLA L. PETERSON 129 Part III: Harper, Hopkins, and Shadd Cary: Writing Our Way to Freedom 8. Narrative Patternings of Resistance in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins' Contending Forces VANESSA HOLFORD DIANA 173 9. "We Are All Bound Up Together": Frances Harper and Feminist Theory VALERIE PALMER-MEHTA 192 10 Mary Ann Shadd Cary: A Visionary of the Black Press CAROL B. CONAWAY 216 Part IV Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice 11. Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the South MARY HELEN WASHINGTON 249 12. A Singing Something: Womanist Reflections on Anna Julia Cooper KAREN BAKER-FLETCHER 269 13. Arguing from Difference: Cooper, Emerson, Guizot, and a More Harmonious America JANICE W. FERNHEIMER 287 Part V Leadership, Activism, and the Genius of Ida B, Wells 14. "I Rose and Found My Voice": Claiming "Voice" in the Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells OLGA IDRISS DAVIS 309 15. The Emergence of a Black Feminist Leadership Model: African-American Women and Political Activism in the Nineteenth Century MELINA ABDULLAH 328 16. Shadowboxing: Liberation Limbos Ida B. Wells JOY JAMES 3L L6 Part VI: Black Feminist Theory: From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First 17. Some Core Themes of Nineteenth-Century Black Feminism KRISTIN WATERS 365 18. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought PATRICIA HILL COLLINS 393 19. Black Feminist Theory: Charting a Course for Black Women's Studies in Political Science EVELYN SIMIEN 419 Selected Bibliography 433 Notes on Contributors 437 Index 441