Book Review: Women of the Klan

	posted by Adam on Friday February 02, @02:39PM from the book-reviews dept.
	This is a book review of Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920's by Kathleen M. Blee,the book shows us how involved women were in the KKK and "that it documents in great detail a direct lineage between the Women's Ku Klux Klan and the radical feminist movement as it exists today.The book draws from a wide variety of historical documents, letters, and in-camera interviews that the author recorded with older women who were still alive at the time the book was written."

<  Rape Hoax Highlights Need to "Clarify Procedures" | Abused Guys Break The "Pink Barrier"  >

  

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Wow... (Score:1) by Scott (scott@mensactivism.org) on Friday February 02, @03:04PM EST (#1) (User #3 Info) http://www.vortxweb.net/gorgias/mens_issues/index.html Very interesting find, Adam. Among the many myths stemming from the socially accepted concept that women are morally superior to men is that women by nature are free of racist tendencies. That is certainly not the case, and it is important to remind the world of this. I keep looking for this reference but I haven't found it yet - I've been told that Susan B. Anthony was deeply racist and complained that blacks, who she felt were beneath being human, were given the right to vote before women. I bet you won't find that in any Women's Studies textbook! Scott

Re:Wow... (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Friday February 02, @03:58PM EST (#2) Thanks Scott, it was an un-expected find when I found it,but a good one. Adam H

Susan B. Anthony (Score:1) by BusterB on Friday February 02, @05:09PM EST (#3) (User #94 Info) http://themenscenter.com/busterb/ Scott, Try looking here. It gives good depth, and points out that Susan B. Anthony wasn't racist all the time. I didn't notice anything about the "beneath being human" part. You're right, though: you won't find this in any Women's Studies textbook; they prefer their heroines clad in pure white. By the way, I enjoyed a quick skim of this Concord essay. Being Canadian, I didn't even know who Susan B. Anthony was... I had just heard her name bandied about here and there. Now I have some idea.

iFeminist site again (Score:1) by David Byron on Saturday February 03, @05:37PM EST (#4) (User #111 Info) http://www.feminismontrial.webprovider.com/index.htm Wendy McElroy goes over some of the details of both Anthony and Stanton's flirt with overt racism after the American Civil War. In response to the idea of black men getting the vote before white women, Anthony and Stanton used many increasingly racist arguments; variations on the old mainstay of stereotyping working class men as drunkards and wife-beaters. This was especially hypocritical of Stanton since she came to feminism from the abolitionist movement (Anthony came from the prohibitionist tradition). Later they also used similar arguments to advocate women ought to get the vote to offset immigration of Catholics. They supported such Jim Crow laws as literacy tests and reasoned that white protestant women were more likely to vote than these other less reputable groups of either sex, and that giving women the vote would help keep power in the right hands. I have just got a copy of the book being reviewd but I've not yet read it (I'm reading "Manifesta" currently)

[an error occurred while processing this directive]