Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

We are a collective of black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974.

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Read in the copy on the shelf, printed page 362, the opening of the statement as Eisenstein's anthology prints it. The same text is in the corpus at work:wd40bb0ff25870e9a, PDF page 370, which is printed page 362; the corpus item is that same file. EDITION AND DATE, settled against the document because secondary accounts give 1978 and 1979: this copy's copyright page reads 'Copyright (c) 1979 by Zillah R. Eisenstein', with the printing line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, ISBN 0-85345-419-1 and Library of Congress card 77-76162, and its contents page lists 'The Combahee River Collective: A Black Feminist Statement 362'. The 1978 date the archive carried comes from elsewhere: the permissions page of Home Girls credits the statement as 'copyright (c) 1978 by Zillah Eisenstein, from Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism'. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around credits its reprint to 'Combahee River Collective ([1977], 1979)'. The book in hand says 1979 and that is what this citation follows. WORDING: this printing sets 'black' in lower case throughout, where the Kitchen Table 1986 pamphlet and How We Get Free print 'Black'; the lower case here is the anthology's own and is kept. A footnote marker follows '1974.' on the page and falls outside the quoted span. The PDF layer breaks 'oppression' and 'movement' across lines and reads 'manifol d' for 'manifold'; those line breaks are closed up and that misread set right against the printed page, and none of them falls inside the quoted span.