Beverly Smith | |
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| Born | November 16, 1946 |
| Education | University of Chicago (BS) Yale University (MPH) Harvard University (MS) |
| Relatives | Barbara Smith (sister) |
Beverly Smith (born November 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.[3]
She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement, "one of the most widely read discussions of Black feminism",[4] which was developed by members of the radical lesbian black feminist Combahee River Collective in 1977. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States.
- ^ Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983, ISBN 0-913175-02-1, p. xx, Introduction.
- ^ Evelyn C. White, The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves, Seal Press, 1993, ISBN 1-878067-40-0, p. 229.
- ^ "Beverly Smith redefines politics in light of the feminist movement" Archived August 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Open Vault.
- ^ Hammonds, Evelynn M. Transitions, Environments, Translations, Cora Kaplan, Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates (eds), Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0-415-91540-6, p. 298.
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