Angela Davis – författare

Hon är känd som en av grundarna till Svarta befrielsearmén, medlem av Svarta pantrarna och gudmor till hiphoplegenden Tupac Shakur.År 2013 blev hon den första kvinnan någonsin att tas upp på listan över FBI:s mest efterlysta terrorister. Nu kommer Assata Shakurs skakande självbiografi för första gången på svenska.Livstidsdomen för mordet på en vit delstatspolis 1973 delade USA. Fallet Assata blev en symbol för rasism och polisbrutalitet. Där kritiker såg en hänsynslös mördare såg Assatas försvarare ett offer för en systematisk och rasistisk kampanj för att kriminalisera svarta befrielseorganisationer.I sin personliga och politiska självbiografi skildrar Assata de erfarenheter som fick henne att omfamna ett liv av aktivism. Assata Shakur min historia är ett bidrag till historieskrivningen och den nutida debatten om rasism och diskriminering. Boken intar en självklar plats intill Malcolm X självbiografi och Maya Angelous böcker.Assata Shakur är också känd som Joanne Chesimard. Hon rymde från fängelset 1979 och lever idag i exil på Kuba. FBI erbjuder upp till en miljon dollar för information som kan leda till hennes gripande.Med förord av Angela Davis och Nathan Hamelberg. Assata Shakurs dikter har tolkats till svenska av Athena Farrokhzad och Leandro Schclarek Mulinari.

In these essays, interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis illuminates connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles. She highlights connections and analyses today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine. Facing a world of injustice, Davis challenges us to build the movement for human liberation.

Pre-school childcare in England, 1939–2010 investigates how competing ideas about child development influenced the provision, practice and experience of childcare for the under fives since 1939. It explores how theories which developed during the war about the psychological harm caused by separating an infant from its mother influenced the organisation of childcare outside the family in light of the social, economic and demographic changes seen during the years that followed. Focusing on four different forms of childcare – day nurseries, nursery schools and classes, playgroups, and childminders – it considers how both individual families and wider society managed the care of young children in the context of dramatic increases in the employment of married women. Using a new body of oral history interviews specifically undertaken for the book, it also examines the experiences and effects of care on those involved and the current policy implications raised.

Winner of the Women’s History Network Book Prize, 2013This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century. Motherhood is an area where a number of discourses and practices meet. The book forms a thematic study looking at aspects of mothers’ lives such as education, health care, psychology, labour market trends and state intervention. Looking through the prism of motherhood provides a way of understanding the complex social changes that have taken place in the post-war world. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field of twentieth-century British social history. However it will also be of interest to scholars in related fields and a general readership with an interest in British social history.'A fascinating survey of women's experience of motherhood', 'eminently readable', 'a solid and thoughtful study', 'an outstanding piece of oral history', and 'ambitiously wide ranging'. The judging panel for the Women’s History Network Book Prize, 2013.

In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, ‘built’ and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual ‘places’ and ‘spaces’ have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The essays in this collection expand upon this already rich field of inquiry by combining an analytical approach sensitive to questions of gender with an exploration of ideas of political space. The volume demonstrates how the gendered and political meanings of space—be that space domestic or public, rural or urban, real or imagined, or a combination of all these and more—are fashioned through the movement of historical actors through space and time. Whether in delineating the gendered and politicized space of the pulpit; the sickroom; the Irish farmyard; the London suffrage atelier; the domestic space created by the wireless; the lesbian ‘scene’ of rural Canada; the eighteenth-century ladies' ‘closet’; or the public space within the ‘public history’ of historic houses, the volume demonstrates how the meanings of these spaces are not fixed, but are challenged and reformulated. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, ‘built’ and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual ‘places’ and ‘spaces’ have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The essays in this collection expand upon this already rich field of inquiry by combining an analytical approach sensitive to questions of gender with an exploration of ideas of political space. The volume demonstrates how the gendered and political meanings of space—be that space domestic or public, rural or urban, real or imagined, or a combination of all these and more—are fashioned through the movement of historical actors through space and time. Whether in delineating the gendered and politicized space of the pulpit; the sickroom; the Irish farmyard; the London suffrage atelier; the domestic space created by the wireless; the lesbian ‘scene’ of rural Canada; the eighteenth-century ladies' ‘closet’; or the public space within the ‘public history’ of historic houses, the volume demonstrates how the meanings of these spaces are not fixed, but are challenged and reformulated. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Beyond the Frame explores the importance of visual images in the identities and material conditions of women of color as they relate to social power, oppression, and resistance.

Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were "written to be read aloud." Her eloquent voice in this book further establishes her place among literary sociological writers of a new generation. Keeping Good Time will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author's perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."

Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were "written to be read aloud." Her eloquent voice in this book further establishes her place among literary sociological writers of a new generation. Keeping Good Time will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author's perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."

Angela Davis är en av de stora legendarerna inom den svarta befrielsekampen i USA. Ända sedan medborgarrättsrörelsens dagar på 1960-talet har hon oförtrutet bekämpat orättvisor och förtryck, ofta till ett högt personligt pris. Som en av pionjärerna inom intersektionellt tänkande var hon bland de första att visa hur rasism, sexism, homofobi och andra förtrycksformer oupplösligen hänger samman och förstärker varandra. Föreliggande volym innehåller intervjuer, artiklar och andra texter som binder samman Davis halvsekellånga gärning som aktivist och akademiker. Vi får följa hur hennes syn på motståndets teori och praktik har utvecklats, från Black Power-rörelsens era, via kampanjen mot apartheid och solidaritetsarbetet med Palestina till kampen mot rasistiskt polisvåld i organisationer som Black Lives Matter och queerfeministiska rörelser. Som en röd tråd genom hela hennes verk löper tanken om att alla dessa strider är sammanlänkade, att ingenting kan förstås i isolering, och att friheten endast kan vinnas genom en oupphörlig kamp.

Hur styrs familjen i dagens samhälle? En rad av numrets texter handlar om vad den politiska styrningen av familjen innebär i dag, i Sverige såväl som i andra länder. Sociologen Åsa Lundqvist och historikern Helene Brodin beskriver i sina respektive bidrag hur den svenska organiseringen av familj och omsorgsrelationer har förändrats i riktning mot en mer marknadsorienterad modell, som lett till ökad ojämlikhet mellan kvinnor med olika sociala bakgrunder. Den politiska filosofen Nancy Fraser och historikern Linda Gordon undersöker den förändrade betydelsen av begreppet »beroende«, särskilt i ett välfärds- och familjepolitiskt sammanhang. Hur migrationsprocesser påverkar relationen mellan föräldrar och barn även sedan familjen fått uppehållstillstånd diskuteras i ett samtal mellan Somar Al Naher, Ihsan Kellecioglu och Bilan Osman. Den brittiska filosofen Nina Power argumenterar för ett kapitalismkritiskt sätt att se på reproduktion, nämligen som en historisk, social och kulturspecifik företeelse där vi alla lätt hamnar i en återvändsgränd. Den amerikanska queerteoretikern Jack Halberstam visar i sin analys av samtida datoranimerade filmer hur queera och antikapitalistiska teman om familj och relationer faktiskt intar en central plats i den kommersiella barnkulturen. Numret innehåller också den amerikanska medborgarrättsaktivisten och historikern Angela Davis klassiska text om hur slaveriet i den amerikanska södern formade de kvinnliga slavarnas villkor och skapade mer jämlika familjerelationer.