African-American female literature[edit]

African American female literature is a educational tool used in america by women of the African descent. This use of education became very popular to African American women around the 18th century and is still constantly becoming more popular in the current 21 century. This use of education also became a platform for many African American women to speak out on there opinions that involve society and having to be a women in society. These opinions about society can very well be deemed as social problems. These authors are able to incorporate their ideas/views on society and able to demonstrate the use of literature within the African American culture. These societal issues that they have discussed in their books include: Racism, sexism, classism and social equality.

Authors[edit]

Ann Folwell Stanford[edit]

In the late nineteenth hundreds Ann Folwell Stanford was the author of the article “Mechanisms of disease: African-American women writers, Social Pathologies, and the Limits of Medicine” This article is about the several social problems that African-american women who dealt with literature were involved with, she also talks about personal problems and entangled with those particular social problems . These social problems were: sexism, hetero-sexism, racism and classism. (Source 1: Stanford, Ann Folwell. “Mechanisms of Disease: African-American Women Writers, Social Pathologies, and the Limits of Medicine.” NWSA Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 1994, pp. 28–47. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4316307.)