Name/TitleRoots: Black Ghetto Ecology
MakerBrown, Wilmette
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectSlim Centrepieces pamphlet titled 'Roots: Black Ghetto Ecology' written by Wilmette Brown and edited by Selma James. The main section headings are:
- The housework of health: the home and the hospital
- Bedside manners: the chain of command
- The Welfare State of Cancer Alley
- How holistic is the health movement?
- Self-healing for the few who can afford it can hardly be considered holistic health
- Black is green: the invisibility of the holistic health movement in the ghetto
- Reparations - Pay women, not the military
Fully scanned (19 pages)
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 207 x W: 147 mm
Date Made1986
Period1980s
Place MadeEngland, London
PublisherHousewives in Dialogue
Publication Date1986
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Series TitleCentrepieces
Number in Series2
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_for_housework:
The International Wages for Housework Campaign (IWFHC) is a grassroots women's network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. It was started in 1972 by Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Silvia Federici, Brigitte Galtier, and Selma James who first put forward the demand for wages for housework. At the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England, the IWFHC states that they begin with those with least power internationally – unwaged workers in the home (mothers, housewives, domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. They consider the demand for wages for unwaged caring work to be also a perspective and a way of organizing from the bottom up, of autonomous sectors working together to end the power relations among them [continues].
Subject and Association KeywordsBlack women activists
Subject and Association Keywords(anti) racism
Subject and Association KeywordsBlack women writers
Subject and Association KeywordsHealth & well-being
Subject and Association Keywordshealth inequalities
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePamphlet
Object numberGWL-2025-47-5
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved