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Feminist Studies Faculty

Angela Davis Professor, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Certificat de la Littérature Française Contemporaine Sorbonne Office: Humanities 1, Room 430 Phone: 831-459-2813 Email: aydavis@ucsc.edu

Selected Courses Taught

HISC 80A: Culture and Ideology in the 20th Century
HISC 208 A/B: Radical Critiques of Penalty (syllabus)
HISC 209 A/B: Women of Color: Feminist Theories and Practices
HISC 215A: Critical Theory in the Marxist Tradition

Research Interests

Feminism, African American studies, critical theory, popular music culture and social consciousness, philosophy of punishment (women's jails and prisons)

Selected Publications

Are Prisons Obsolete?, New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2003.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and
Billie Holiday, New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

The Angela Y. Davis Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

Angela Davis: An Autobiography, New York: International Publishers, 1989 (original published in 1974 by Random House).

Women, Race, and Class, New York: Vintage Books, 1983.