Shadow bodies : Black women, ideology, representation, and politics /
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| Author / Creator: | Jordan-Zachery, Julia S., 1971- author. |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017] |
| Description: | viii, 202 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11355540 |
| Summary: | 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? <br> <br> <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 202 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813593401 0813593409 9780813593395 0813593395 |
