Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism

ISBN-13: 9780367870188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 154 str.

Maria del Guadalupe Davidson

Opis

This book explores the generational divide over questions related to agency. While traditional black feminists tend to see new images of black women negatively as a retreat and an impediment to progress, younger black women tend to embrace these new images and see them in a positive light. After carefully setting up this divide, this book sugges

Spis treści

Introduction Agency Born of Struggle  Chapter One THE CONSTRUCTED AGENT: POSTMODERNISM, WHITE FEMINISM AND BLACK MALE AGENCY  Chapter Two HISTORICIZING AGENCY IN THE BLACK FEMINIST TRADITION: A PHENMENOLOGY OF THE BLACK FEMALE BODY  Chapter Three MILLENNIALS: BLACK WOMEN FORMING AND TRANSFORMING AGENCY  Chapter Four MILLENNIALS: BLACK WOMEN FORMING AND TRANSFORMING AGENCY  Chapter Five THE THINGS THEY CONTINUE TO CARRY: BLACK WOMEN’S AGENCY TODAY AND TOMORROW  Chapter Six CONCLUSION: ON THE GREAYNESS OF GRAY  Bibliography

O autorze

Dr. Maria del Guadalupe Davidson is Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Co-Director of the Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma