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Summary Of Winter Off Our Back By Angela Davis
Two Reviews of Angela Davis’ Women Race and Class (1983) By: Brittany Turnbull
I. The Reviews
a. Amy Winter [Women Race and Class] Off Our Backs, January-February Issue (2005) pp48-49
b. Ann Russo [Book Review]Women Studies International Forum, Volume 6, Number 2 (1983) pp249

II. Summary of Reviews
a. Winter, Off Our Backs
The reviewer focused on the different parts of history of the African American woman as well as the history of all women as a whole. She broke up the review by discussing each chapter to coincide with Davis’ break up of her book and
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