Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Academia/Director and Professor

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, PhD is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies both at Spelman College

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Beverly Guy-Sheftall Bio

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, PhD is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies both at Spelman College. She taught Women’s Studies at Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies. At 16, she attended Spelman College where she majored in English. She graduated with honors and went on to attend Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English. She earned her Master’s in English from Atlanta University. Her thesis was entitled, Faulkner’s Treatment of Women in His Major Novels. Dr. Guy-Sheftall joined the Department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1971 she returned to her alma mater Spelman College and joined the English Department. She has published a number of texts within African American and Women’s Studies including the first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: and Visions of Black Women in Literature.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Portfolio

  • Book

    Gender Talk

    In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the legacy of slavery as is racism.

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  • Book

    Stiil Brave

    Still Brave is a monumental book that reminds us of the centrality of Black Womanist genius and talent grounded in courage and struggle

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    I Am Your Sister

    I Am Your Sister is a collection of Lorde's non-fiction prose, written between 1976 and 1990, and it introduces new perspectives on the depth and range of Lorde's intellectual interests and her commitments to progressive social change.

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    Traps

    Traps is the first anthology of writings by 19th- and 20th-century African American men on the overlapping categories of race, gender, and sexuality.

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  • Book

    Who Should Be First?

    Who should be first? With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as frontrunners, the 2008 Democratic primary campaign was a watershed moment in United States history.

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  • Article

    Beverly Guy-Sheftall -Biography

    Academic administrator and black women's studies professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall was born on June 1, 1946 in Memphis, Tennessee to Walter and Ernestine Varnado-Guy.

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  • Video

    The making of brave

    Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall of Spelman College and editor of the new edition of "All the Blacks are Men, All the Women are White, But Some of Us are Brave" gives her lecture titled "The making of brave". Presented at the Black Women in the Ivory Tower Conference on March 5th, 2009 in Trayes Hall at Rutgers University.

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