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essays
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gay, Roxane
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 1N 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, coming out, zwarte vrouwen, geweld, seksualiteit, etniciteit, populaire cultuur
- Description
- In these essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Melancon, Trimiko > [ed.]
- Creator
- Braxton, Joanne M. > [ed.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, etniciteit, zwarte vrouwen, feminisme, LHBT, literatuur, seksueel geweld, aids, bundel
- Description
- The essays in this book reveal the diverse ways black women experience and represent sexuality. The contributors highlight the range of tactics that black women use to express their sexual desires and identities. .The authors take not only an interdisciplinary approach, but also an intergenerational one, in conversation with the foremothers of black feminist studies. In addition, the book explores a diverse archive of representations, covering everything from blues to hip-hop, from Crash to Precious, from Sister Souljah to Edwidge Danticat. Revealing that black female sexuality is anything but a black-and-white issue, this collection demonstrates how to appreciate a whole spectrum of subjectivities, experiences, and desires.
black women in American film
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mask, Mia
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- films, televisie, zwarte vrouwen, loopbanen, vrouwbeelden, seksualiteit, etniciteit, feminisme, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This study places African American women's stardom in historical contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.
feminism, rhetoric, and differences that matter
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Poirot, Kristan
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, identiteit, zwarte vrouwen, kiesrecht, etniciteit, lesbische vrouwen, LHBT, feminisme, vrouwenbewegingen, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Kristan Poirot demonstrates that contemporary theories about sex, gender, identity, and difference compel a rethinking of the history of feminist movements and their rhetorical practices. .Poirot focuses on five case studies : the circulation of Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I a Woman?' in early and contemporary feminist contexts: the visual rhetorics of the feminist self-help health movement: the public discourse of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and early nineteenth-century ideas about suffrage, sex, and race: the conflicts over lesbian sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s: and the discourse that surrounds twenty-first-century SlutWalks. In the process, Poirot rethinks the terms through which we understand U.S. feminist movements to explore the ways feminism has questioned sexed distinctions and practices over time.
black feminist organzations, 1968-1980
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Springer, Kimberly
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 7 2005
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, vrouwenorganisaties, zwarte vrouwen, sociale klasse, seksualiteit, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten, 1960-1969, 1970-1979, statistiek
- Description
- Through original oral history interviews with key activists and analysis of previously unexamined organizational records, Kimberly Springer traces the emergence, life, and decline of several black feminist organizations: the Third World Women’s Alliance, Black Women Organized for Action, the National Black Feminist Organization, the National Alliance of Black Feminists, and the Combahee River Collective. The first of these to form was founded in 1968: all five were defunct by 1980. Springer demonstrates that these organizations led the way in articulating an activist vision formed by the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality.. .The organizations Springer examines were the first to explicitly use feminist theory as a tool to further the work of previous black women’s organizations. As she describes, they emerged in response to marginalization in the civil rights and women’s movements, stereotyping in popular culture, and misrepresentation in public policy. Springer compares the organizations’ ideologies, goals, activities, memberships, leadership styles, finances, and communication strategies. Reflecting on the conflicts, lack of resources, and burnout that led to the demise of these groups, she considers the future of black feminist organizing, particularly at the national level. Living for the Revolution is an essential reference: it provides the history of a movement that influenced black feminist theory and civil rights activism for decades to come. .
the history of feminism and the future of women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Freedman, Estelle B.
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3542 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, zwarte vrouwen, etniciteit, industrialisatie, politiek, seksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, gezondheid, historisch, Verenigde Staten, West-Europa
- Description
- The author examines the historical forces that have fueled the feminist movement over the past two hundred years, and explores how women today are looking to feminism for new approaches to issues of work, family, sexuality, and creativity. .Freedman begins with an incisive analysis of what feminism means and why it took root in western Europe and the United States at the end of the eighteenth century. The rationalist, humanistic philosophy of the Enlightenment, which ignited the American Revolution, also sparked feminist politics, inspiring such pioneers as Mary Wollstonecraft and Susan B. Anthony. Race has always been as important as gender in defining feminism, and Freedman traces the intricate ties between women’s rights and abolitionism in the United States in the years before the Civil War and the long tradition of radical women of color, stretching back to the impassioned rhetoric of Sojourner Truth. .As industrialism and democratic politics spread after World War II, feminist politics gained momentum and sophistication throughout the world. Their impact began to be felt in every aspect of society–from the workplace to the chambers of government to relations between the sexes. Because of feminism, Freedman points out, the line between the personal and the political has blurred, or disappeared, and issues once considered 'merely' private–abortion, sexual violence, homosexuality, reproductive health, beauty and body image–have entered the public arena as subjects of fierce, ongoing debate.
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