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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154738603321

Autore

Threadcraft Shatema

Titolo

Intimate justice : the black female body and the body politic / / Shatema Threadcraft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-025165-4

0-19-025164-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

305.48896073

Soggetti

African American women - Social conditions

African American women - Violence against

Sex crimes - United States

Feminism - United States

Equality - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: black female body politics -- "What free could possibly mean": the intimate sphere in enslaved women's visions of freedom -- Racial violence and the post-emancipation struggle for intimate equality -- Intimate injustice, political obligation and the dark ghetto -- Intimate justice.

Sommario/riassunto

Black women's sexual and reproductive history in America is one marred by forced sterilizations and coerced reproduction. While reproductive rights activists and organizations, historians and legal scholars have all begun to grapple with this history and its meaning, political theorists have yet to do so. 'Intimate Justice' charts the long and still incomplete path to black female intimate freedom, challenging the way in which we conceive of equality.