OFF THE COUCH : A Woman's Guide to Therapy

Bloom Sheryll; Cohen, Dale; Curran, Denise; Edwards, Gwenyth; Klein, Pat; Robson, Elizabeth; Zarrow, Marla; [Smith, Barbara]

ISBN 10: 0271012072 / ISBN 13: 9780271012070

Published by Women & Therapy Collective, (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1975

About this Item

Scarce first edition of this introduction to feminist therapy by the Women & Therapy Collective - from the library of groundbreaking Black feminist Barbara Smith. Barbara Smith's life and career as a Black lesbian feminist activist has had an immense impact upon multiple fields. She was the author, co-author, or editor of many of the founding documents of Black feminism, from the epochal 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement (a work credited with largely establishing the intersectional theory Davis applies here); to TOWARD A BLACK FEMINIST CRITICISM (1977), "the earliest theoretical statement on black feminist criticism" (McDowell); to HOME GIRLS: A BLACK FEMINIST ANTHOLOGY (1983), issued by her Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press (co-founded with Beverly Smith, Cherrķe Moraga, and Audre Lorde, and which also republished THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK). Smith's papers were recently placed at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; the Schlesinger not acquiring duplicate titles, this book comes directly from Smith's remaining library. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original saddle-stapled red pictorial wrappers. [2], 42 pages. From the library of Barbara Smith, with her address label to first leaf. Minor edgewear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: OFF THE COUCH : A Woman's Guide to Therapy
• Publisher: Women & Therapy Collective, (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Publication Date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0271012072
• ISBN 13: 9780271012070
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near fine.
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Synopsis

Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life presents selections from the writings of two dozen representative black women leaders of the past century, with a general introduction relating them to their forebears in colonial times and to their descendants in the twentieth century. Each selection is introduced with a biographical headnote, and the book contains a bibliography of works by or about these women and other black women. The selections are grouped in four parts, emphasizing respectively family relationships, religious activities, political and reformist movements, and education.

The women represented in this book comprise a cross section of historically significant black women in the nineteenth century. Ten were born free, eight were freed before the Civil War, and six were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation; eight were born in the North and sixteen in the South. Their names are Annie Louise Burton, Anna Julia Cooper, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Cornelia, Ellen Craft, Silvia Dubois, Elleanor Eldridge, Elizabeth, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Elizabeth Keckley, Lucy Craft Laney, Jarena Lee, Louisa Picquet, Ann Plato, Nancy Prince, Sarah Parker Remond, Amanda Berry Smith, Maria Stewart, Susie King Taylor, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Wells-Barnett, and Fannie Barrier Williams.

About the Authors

The late Bert J. Loewenberg was the Esther Raushenbush Professor in the Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College and the author or co-author of seven books on American history and Darwinian evolution.

Ruth Bogin taught American history at Pace University and is the author of Sarah Parker Remond: Black Abolitionist from Salem (1974).