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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807944603321

Autore

Jordan-Zachery Julia Sheron

Titolo

Shadow bodies : black women, ideology, representation, and politics / / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, [New Jersey] : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8135-9341-7

0-8135-9343-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.48896073

Soggetti

African American women - Social conditions

Feminism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557551603321

Autore

Santos Nuno C

Titolo

Membrane-Peptide Interactions : From Basics to Current Applications

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Soggetti

Biology, life sciences

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book summarizes the importance of peptide-membrane interactions, mostly aiming at developing new therapeutic approaches. The experimental and computational methodologies used to investigate such interactions reveal the evolution of existing biophysical methodologies, shedding some light on potential applications of peptides, as well as on the improvement of their design. Understanding the determinants for peptide-membrane interactions may also improve the knowledge of membrane functions such as the membrane transport, fusion, and signaling processes, contributing to the development of new agents for highly relevant applications ranging from disease treatment to food technology.