Beverly Smith

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Beverly Smith (born December 16, 1946) in Cleveland, Ohio[1] is a Black feminist health advocate[2], writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.[1]

She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement, "one of the most widely read discussions of Black feminism,"[3] which was developed by several members of the National Black Feminist Organization in 1977. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States.

[edit] Selected Works

[edit] Periodicals

  • Conditions (magazine) Five, The Black Women's Issue, Nov. 1979[4];
  • Conditions (magazine) Four, Smith, Barbara, and Beverly. I Am Not Meant to be Alone and Without You Who Understand: Letters From Black Feminists, 1972-1978, Winter 1978 [2]
  • Sinister Wisdom - various issues[5]
  • Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith, The Varied Voices of Black Women, Sojourner (magazine), Oct 1978
  • Ms. Magazine[3]- various issues[6]
  • Aegis Journal,1983, Some Thoughts on Racism

[edit] Anthologies

  • Smith, Beverly. The Wedding, from Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983, ed. Barbara Smith Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press
  • Combahee River Collective Statement, authored with Barbara Smith and Demita Frazier
  • Smith, Barbara & Beverly. Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue., from This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, Persephone Press, 1981.
  • Smith, Beverly. Black Women's Health: Notes for a Course, in But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies, Hull, Gloria T., Scott, Patricia Bell, Smith, Barbara, eds. The Feminist Press, 1982 ISBN 0912670959
  • Smith, Beverly. Face-to-Face, Day-to-day — Racism Consciousness Raising, A conversation with Tia Cross, Freada Klein & Beverly Smith, in But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies, Hull, Gloria T., Scott, Patricia Bell, Smith, Barbara, eds. Feminist Press, 1982 ISBN 0912670959
  • Smith, Beverly. Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion, From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming an Movement, ed. Marlene Gerber Fried, South End Press, 1990 p86

[edit] References

  1. ^ Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983, ISBN 0913175021, pxx, Introduction
  2. ^ Evelyn C. White. The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves, Seal Press, 1993, ISBN 1878067400, p229
  3. ^ Hammonds, Evelynn M. Transitions, Environments, Translations, Cora Kaplan, Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates, eds. Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0415915406, p298
  4. ^ Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983, ISBN 0913175021, p xlix, Introduction
  5. ^ Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983, ISBN 0913175021, p375, Contributors Notes
  6. ^ Off Our Backs Magazine, Oct 1998 Klorman, Renee, interview with Barbara Smith: Activist. Writer. Revolutionary. Barbara Smith: A political life as a Black radical, lesbian feminist