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UNINA9910466501603321 |
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Autore |
Jordan-Zachery Julia Sheron |
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Shadow bodies : black women, ideology, representation, and politics / / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery |
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New Brunswick, [New Jersey] : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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ISBN |
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0-8135-9341-7 |
0-8135-9343-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African American women - Social conditions |
Feminism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Different Streams Of Knowledge: Theoretically Situating This Study -- 2. Inscribing And The Black (Female) Body Politic -- 3. Uncovering Talk Across Time And Space: Black Women Elected Officials, Essence And Ebony, And Black Female Bloggers -- 4. "Safe, Soulful Sex": HIV/AIDS Talk -- 5. Killing Me Softly: Narratives On Domestic Violence And Black Womanhood -- 6. "Why So Many Sisters Are Mad And Sad": Talking About Black Women With Mental Illnesses -- 7. Sister Speak: Using Intersectionality In Our Political And Policy Strategizing -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About The Author |
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What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have shown themselves an important voting bloc? How for example, does #sayhername translate into a political agenda that manifests itself in specific policies? Shadow Bodies focuses on the positionality of the Black woman's body, which serves as a springboard for helping us think through political and cultural representations. It does so by asking: How do discursive practices, both speech and |
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silences, support and maintain hegemonic understandings of Black womanhood thereby rendering some Black women as shadow bodies, unseen and unremarked upon? 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 bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women's politics specifically. |
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