The cover page is adapted from Portrait of a Lady, a painting completed in 1947 by Laura Wheeler Waring. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waringwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
A Voice from the South
Chapters (13)
- Epigraph 0:00
- Dedication 0:12
- Our Raison d’Être 0:43
- Soprano Obligato 3:58
- Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race 4:45
- The Higher Education of Women 57:48
- “Woman Versus the Indian” 1:42:35
- The Status of Woman in America 2:47:17
- Tutti ad Libitum 3:13:14
- Has America a Race Problem; If So, How Can It Best Be Solved? 3:14:05
- One Phase of American Literature 3:49:17
- What Are We Worth? 5:04:21
- The Gain from a Belief 6:25:26
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A Voice from the South was published in 1892 by Anna Julia Cooper, an educator who was one of the first two African-American women to be awarded a master’s degree. Since then it has been recognized as one of the first works of Black feminist theory.
Setting forth a perspective that would be described as “intersectional” in contemporary terms, Cooper explores her own lived experience as an educated African-American woman, and advocates for the education of African-American women as a necessary means of achieving racial equality. However, her marked emphasis on women’s roles in the household has been critiqued by later theorists as a concession to the 19th century “cult of domesticity”—or, alternatively, a strategic engagement with the dominant cultural view towards women in her time. A Voice from the South continues to be read and analyzed today for its pioneering role in African-American female scholarship.