Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought

"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term "feminism." And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses of Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances W.E. Harper of the early nineteenth century, and the work of women such as the late Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and bell hooks who stand on the threshold of the twenty-first century... She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously struggled for the liberation of African American women from the dual oppressions of racism and sexism." —From the epilogue by Johnnetta B. Cole, President, Spelman College

"The indefatigable Beverly Guy-Sheftall has put together a breathtaking sweep of African American feminist thought in one indispensable volume." —Elizabeth Spelman, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College

• Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
• Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
• When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
• Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings
• The Crunk Feminist Collection
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
• The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought