'In this country, women’s liberation flowered best in the soil prepared by black liberation.' An excerpt from Toni Morrison's book, The Source of Self Regard:
Toni Morrison first delivered “Women, Race, and Memory” at Queens College, Queens, New York, May 8, 1989.In 1868 a forty-five-year-old woman asked the United States Senate for three years’ back pay. She had been hired during the Civil War to do three kinds of work: as nurse, cook, and “commander of several men.” It took thirty years for the men in the nation’s Capital to make up their minds on a matter in which money, sex, race, and class were so hopelessly entangled.
Avowed feminists, their consciousnesses sufficiently raised to be active workers for women’s rights, have been around for a long time. Feminism is as old as sexual repression. In this country, women’s liberation flowered best in the soil prepared by black liberation. The mid-nineteenth-century abolitionist movement yielded suffragettes; the mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights movement yielded Woman’s Liberation.
Whatever the disposition of women today they are forced relentlessly into selling or trading on their vaginas or their wombs. Relinquishing reproductive control to God is, in fact, relinquishing it to men. Demanding reproductive control is to usurp male sovereignty and acquire what masculinity takes for granted—dominion.
Accepting male-defined, male-blessed class hierarchy is also to strangle the movement and keep us locked in a fruitless war in which each of us is a female saboteur.
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