Despite the gains that women have made because of the women's liberation movement, black women have not embraced the movement. This article reports on a pilot study of 94 black women and white women that examined the tensions between these two groups and their failure to unite to combat the oppressive patriarchal system.The variables that were studied included the women's liberation movement, the feud over black men, white women supervisors and black women workers, and the labeling of black women as matriarchs.O you daughters of the West . O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives! Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers! O Pioneers! —Walt Whitman, Leaves of GrassIn the past 20 years, there has been a proliferation of writings on the depth of sexism m this country (Adams
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