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<p>Aptheker 'weaves together the voices of women survivors of the Holocaust and of the U.S. concentration camps for Japanese Americans, Chicana cannery workers and southern cotton-mill girls, older lesbians and elderly Jews, Afro-American women in slavery and contemporary Afro-American writers, and others, in order to explore women's ways of seeing. Her analyses of oral histories, novels, legends, poetry, and art show how we can use these records of women's and men's lives.' -- Sandra Harding, Women's Review of Books</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Aptheker ( Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History ) avers that ``women have a consciousness of social reality that is distinct from that put forth by men,'' and her book seeks to define such consciousness ``as it is constructed in the artifacts of daily life.'' The exposition partially exemplifies her hope to locate a ``woman-centered'' way of thinking: the author considers the poems, fictions, testimonies and artwork of women and she outlines the experiences and conditions that inform her own point of view (she grew up in New York, in a middle-class, Communist, Jewish family; she married and divorced; she l

Author

Aptheker, Bettina

Publisher

The University of Massachusetts Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870236587

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology