by bell hooks
Davis, Angela, 27, 72, 183 Deckard, Barbara, 175 De-humanization, 20, 117 Diner, Helen, 73, 75 Domestics, 77, 79, 154-5
Douglass, Frederick, 33, 89, 91, 130
Emasculation, 76 Essence, 6, 82
Evil, 85-6; black women stereotyped as
Family, 20, 46, 75
Femininity, 20-1, 27, 109, 177, 178
Feminism, 12, 105, chapter 4, 148
Flogging, 37-8
Freeman, Jo, 147
Friedan, Betty, 146
Garvy, Amy, 174 Genovese, Eugene, 35, 61 Greeley, Horace, 3 Grimke, Angelina, 27-9 Grimke, Sarah, 27-9
Gutman, Herbert, 84
Hacker, Helen, 139 Hansberry, Lorraine, 58, 178-9 Hernton, Calvin, 112
Identity, 7 Innocence, 69
Kelly, Abby, 126 Kemble, Frances, 41-2 Kovel, Joel, 97, 124
Ladner, Joyce, 10, 156 Lerner, Gerda, 10, 59 Liberation, 146 Lorde, Audre, 107
Mammy, 84-5
Marriage, 43, 56, 62, 69
Masculinity, 21, 45, 77, 80, 93, 100, 103, 179, 181 Matriarchy, 71-82, 181 Memmi, Albert, 122
Men, Black, 3, 5, 60-65; on the issue of rape, 76-7; on work, Chapter 3; discussion of black male sexism, 144
Men, White, 3, 63-5, 67, 79, 87, 91, 94, 96, 142, 144, 155
Military, 104
Millet, Kate, 11
Misogyny, 32, 85, 107
Movies, 63-6; images of black women, 66, 108 Moynihan, Daniel, 71-82, 104, 163 Muslims, Black, 109-12 Myths, 62-3
Nationalism, Black, 69, 89, 116 O’Neill, William, 7
Oppression, 1, 6
Patriarchy, 15, 20, 47-9, 76, 88, 92, 94, 97-9, 100-4, 113, 180-1
Phillips, Wendell, 3 Pimps, 108 Politics, 74
Pregnancy, 18-19, 39-53; during slavery Prostitutes, 33, 58
Racism, 7-8, 53-9; racism and sexism, 97, chapter 4; racism and feminism
Rape, 18, 25,29,35,37,51-62 Reconstruction, 4, 55 Reform, 33 Religion, 33
Rich, Adrienne, 123, 125 Rogers, Katherine, 30
Sapphire, 85-6 Scott, Anne, 47 Sexism, 1, chapter 1 Sexual Exploitation, 43, 52 Sexuality, 30, 50, 54-6 Sinclair, Andrew, 30, 170 Sisterhood, 9, 49, 121, 157, 188-9 Slavers, 17 Slavery, 15-49, 154-5 Smith, Amanda Berry, 16 Smith, Page, 28, 29, 32 Smuts, Robert, 78 Sochen, June, 160-2, 172 Stanton, Elizabeth, 31, 127 Staples, Robert, 34 Steinem, Gloria, 16
Stereotypes, 29-30; of white women, 55, 65, 70, 82, 84; of black women
Stimpson, Catherine, 139, 143-5 Suffrage, 3, 7, 8, 127, 170-3 Supremacy, White, 60-1, 114
Television, 52, 64, 65-6, 85; images of black women, 104 Terrell, Mary Church, 3, 90, 129, 162, 169 Truth, Sojourner, 3-4, 159
Violence, 104-7
Wallace, Michelle, 11-12, 98, 182-4 Washington, Joseph, 61 White, Mungo, 24
Women, Black, 3, 7-10; racism in language, 15, 27, 55, 65, 70, 82, 84, 110, 11; in the black muslim movement, 130-2; black women’s clubs, work; 131-4
Women, White, 3, 36, 37, 154, 155; slave mistresses, 46, 48, 49, 110, chapters 4 and 5
Wright, Richard, 101
