Davis, Angela Y, and Robin D. G Kelley. The Meaning Of Freedom. Print. 2012

I chose the book as it was originally published in 2012, so it would offer a much more up to date argument. The writer (Davis), comes from a background of "extreme and blatant unfreedom". She grew up in the 1940's/60's when black middle class homes were "being firebombed regularly by white supremacists".

"freedom is not a thing granted by the stat in the form of law or proclamation or policy; freedom is struggled for, it is hard fought and transformative, it is a participatory process that demands new ways of thinking and being"

Here the writer is basically saying that freedom is more affected by social or cultural constructs than it is law or policy. She is saying that in order to gain freedom, you essentially have to win people over/get them to undertake that way of thinking. I picked out this quote because I think it's highly relevant in terms of the feminist movement - you have to change people's attitudes towards gender inequality before any laws or regulations can be upheld. 

In the end I concluded that most of this book wasn't relevant to my research and I didn't want to digress any further.