Shadow bodies : Black women, ideology, representation, and politics /

Grounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women's bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some black female bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Bl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jordan-Zachery, Julia S., 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Temas:
African American women > Social conditions.
Feminism.
Noires américaines > Conditions sociales.
Féminisme.
feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African American women > Social conditions
Feminism
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Different streams of knowledge: theoretically situating this study
  • Inscribing and the black (female) body politic
  • Uncovering talk across time and space: black women elected
  • "Safe, soulful sex": HIV/AIDS talk
  • Killing me softly: narratives on domestic violence and black womanhood
  • "Why so many sisters are mad and sad": talking about black women with mental illnesses
  • Sister speak: using intersectionality in our political and policy strategizing.

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