Tapestries of life bettina aptheker biography
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Bettina Aptheker
American political activist, radical feminist, professor, and author
Bettina Fay Aptheker (born September 2, 1944)[1] is an American political activist, radical feminist, professor and author. Aptheker was active in civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and has since worked in developing feminist studies.
Biography
[edit]Early years and education
[edit]Aptheker was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to a Jewish family,[2] Fay Philippa Aptheker and Herbert Aptheker, first cousins who had married in Brooklyn. Both parents were political activists; her mother, who had been married before and was ten years older than her husband, was a union organizer. Her father was a Marxist historian, whose first book about slave revolts overturned previous conceptions of enslaved African Americans. He was a major figure in changing the writing of African American history.[3] Bettina was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where her Jewish parents, children of immigrants, had grown up. Her first job as a teenager was in the home of W.E.B. Du Bois, who was a good friend of her father.
Aptheker obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She was an activist in the W.E.B. Du Bois Club
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Review
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Tapestries of Life
"Aptheker weaves together the voices of women survivors of the Holocaust and of the U.S. concentration camps for Japanese Americans, Chicana cannery workers and southern cotton-mill girls, older lesbians and elderly Jews, Afro-American women in slavery and contemporary Afro-American writers, and others, in order to explore women's ways of seeing. Her analyses of oral histories, novels, legends, poetry, and art show how we can use these records of women's consciousnesses to challenge conventional accounts of women's and men's lives."—Women's Review of Books
"Aptheker's eloquent defense of women takes its place within an ongoing argument over the meaning of gender in history, and as such will be required reading for feminist scholars."—New Directions for Women
"Aptheker has recaptured, I think, the spirit of the women's movement as we first knew it in the 1970s. After all the academicism, the jargonization of feminist language, the bitterness of political infighting, the dividing of even feminist women in the workplace, the wounds from battles fought with the very ones we have loved, [she has] reminded me of why we have been doing it all."—Frontiers
"An interesting an important introduction to a crucial discourse, i.e., what are the ways in which w