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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

Beverly Guy-Sheftall (editor), Johnnetta Betsch Cole (epilogue), Florence "Flo" Kennedy (contributor), Patricia Hill Collins (contributor), June Jordan (contributor), Michele Wallace (contributor), Pearl Cleage (contributor), Angela Yvonne Davis (contributor), Barbara Smith (contributor), and Combahee River Collective (contributor)

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IN STOCK$24.95
ISBN 9781565842564
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Publisher The New Press
Year of publication 1995
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