03330nam 2200529 450 991046650160332120200520144314.00-8135-9341-70-8135-9343-310.36019/9780813593432(CKB)3790000000537560(MiAaPQ)EBC5166458(DE-B1597)526180(OCoLC)989520234(DE-B1597)9780813593432(Au-PeEL)EBL5166458(CaPaEBR)ebr11476134(EXLCZ)99379000000053756020180103h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierShadow bodies black women, ideology, representation, and politics /Julia S. Jordan-ZacheryNew Brunswick, [New Jersey] :Rutgers University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (214 pages) illustrations0-8135-9340-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorWhat 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.African American womenSocial conditionsFeminismElectronic books.African American womenSocial conditions.Feminism.305.48896073Jordan-Zachery Julia Sheron1045864Jordan-Zachery Julia S., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466501603321Shadow bodies2472435UNINA