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Record Nr.

UNINA9910165048503321

Autore

Davidson Maria del Guadalupe

Titolo

Black women, agency, and the new black feminism / / Maria del Guadalupe Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-73092-8

1-317-55043-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Routledge Research in Gender and Society ; ; 56

Disciplina

305.48/896073

305.48896

Soggetti

African American women - Social conditions

African American feminists

Feminism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The constructed agent : postmodernism, white feminism, and black male agency -- 2. Historicizing agency in the black feminist tradition : a phenomenology of the black female body -- 3. Worrying the feminist line -- 4. Millennials : black women forming and transforming agency -- 5. Troubling the water : black feminist theory and the hegemony of thought -- 6. Conclusion : on the grayness of gray.

Sommario/riassunto

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 suggests that a more complex understanding of black feminist agency needs to be developed, one that is adapted to the complexities faced by the younger generation in today's world.