Exile

"…The first distinctive women’s movement in America evolved out of abolitionism. This nineteenth-century movement found women fighting for the right to vote. The contemporary women’s movement likewise emerged out of the 1960s Black freedom struggle. This movement found women demanding freedom from their exile in the domestic realm and equal access to the male-dominated social-political realm. Undergirding both movements was a struggle against patriarchalism. Patriarchalism was based on Victorian ideology, which considered women– that is, White women– fragile dolls who had to be placed upon protective pedestals. They were consequently relegated to the home and prevented entrance into the public arena."

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p. 94 in The Black Christ by Kelly Brown Douglas.  

“women demanding freedom from their exile in the domestic realm and equal access to the male-dominated social-political realm.”

Exile.  Love it.