Recovering The Black Female Body
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Author |
: Michael Bennett |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813528399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813528397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Recovering the Black Female Body by : Michael Bennett
Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.
Author |
: bell hooks |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2014-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317588313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317588312 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sisters of the Yam by : bell hooks
In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, hooks articulates the link between self-recovery and political resistance. Both an expression of the joy of self-healing and the need to be ever vigilant in the struggle for equality, Sisters of the Yam continues to speak to the experience of black womanhood.
Author |
: Caroline Brown |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2013-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136289194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136289194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art by : Caroline Brown
This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate are bound to such contemporary, postmodern visual artists as Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, Betye Saar, and Faith Ringgold. While the artists and authors rely on radically different media—photos, collage, video, and assembled objects, as opposed to words and rhythm—both sets of intellectual activists insist on the primacy of the black aesthetic. Both assert artistic agency and cultural continuity in the face of the oppression, social transformation, and cultural multiplicity of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book examines how African-American performative practices mediate the tension between the ostensibly de-racialized body politic and the hyper-racialized black, female body, reimagining the cultural and political ground that guides various articulations of American national belonging. Brown shows how and why black women writers and artists matter as agents of change, how and why the form and content of their works must be recognized and reconsidered in the increasingly frenzied arena of cultural production and political debate.
Author |
: C. Henderson |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2010-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230115477 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230115470 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining the Black Female Body by : C. Henderson
This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms.
Author |
: Linda Villarosa |
Publisher |
: Harper Perennial |
Total Pages |
: 616 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015038525625 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Body & Soul by : Linda Villarosa
Written by black women for black women and sponsored by the National Black Women's Health Project, here is an honest, straight-from-the-heart guide reminiscent of Our Bodies, Ourselves that addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual health issues and concerns of black women today. Linda Villarosa is a senior editor at Essence magazine. 175 photos and illustrations.
Author |
: Kimberly Wallace-Sanders |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472067079 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472067077 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Skin Deep, Spirit Strong by : Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination
Author |
: Noliwe M. Rooks |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813534259 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813534251 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ladies' Pages by : Noliwe M. Rooks
Noliwe M. Rooks's Ladies' Pages sheds light on the most influential African American women's magazines--Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion, Half-Century Magazine for the Colored Homemaker, Tan Confessions, Essence, and O, the Oprah Magazine--and their little-known success in shaping the lives of black women. Ladies' Pages demonstrates how these rare and thought-provoking publications contributed to the development of African American culture and the ways in which they in turn reflect important historical changes in black communities.
Author |
: Tisha M. Brooks |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2023-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813948942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813948940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spirit Deep by : Tisha M. Brooks
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith, and Nancy Prince. Brooks hereby challenges the divides between religious and literary studies, and between coerced and "free" passages within travel writing studies to reveal meaningful new connections in Black women’s writings. Bringing together both sacred and secular texts, Spirit Deep uncovers an enduring spiritual legacy of movement and power that Black women have claimed for themselves in opposition to the single story of the Black (female) body as captive, monstrous, and strange. Spirit Deep thus addresses the marginalization of Black women from larger conversations about travel writing, demonstrating the continuing impact of their spirituality and movements in our present world.
Author |
: Sandra Jackson |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2024-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040309902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040309909 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading the Black Body by : Sandra Jackson
This book is an outgrowth of an international conference – The Black Body: Imagining, Writing, and Re(Reading) – held at DePaul University, Chicago in 2004. The various contributing authors critically examine the changing discourses on the black body to address how it has been constituted as a site for construction and maintenance of social and political power. Drawing examples from Europe, Africa, the United States as well as other places in the Black Diaspora, the subject matter in this book discusses the raced, gendered, classed and culturally produced discourses about the black body. Through its examination of these and related issues, this book contributes to a dialogue across various disciplines about the black body, its meanings and negotiations as read, interpreted, and imagined in different frames of perception and imagination. Print editions not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book is part of Routledge’s co-published series 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa, in collaboration with UNISA Press, which reflects on the past years of a democratic South Africa and assesses the future opportunities and challenges.
Author |
: Bernice L. Hausman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2014-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135208264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135208263 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mother's Milk by : Bernice L. Hausman
Mother's Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers' infant feeding choices--economically, socially, and in terms of women's rights. Breastfeeding controversies, she argues, reveal social tensions around the meaning of women's bodies, the authority of science, and the value of maternity in American culture. A provocative and multi-faceted work, Mother's Milk will be of interest to anyone concerned with the politics of women's embodiment.