Maverick feminist : to be female and Black in a country founded upon violence and respectability /

Maverick feminist : to be female and Black in a country founded upon violence and respectability /

"Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick-like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating characteristics have been repeatedly disparaged by the masses in favor of an elitist politics of respectability. In Maverick Feminist: To Be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swanson, Kemeshia Randle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2024.
Subjects:
Women, Black > Social conditions.
African American women > Social conditions.
Women, Black > Sexual behavior.
African American women > Sexual behavior.
African American feminists.
Feminism.
Feminism and racism.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reclaiming my everything: Black feminisms, popular culture, and pleasure
  • Chapter One: Dirty computer: girlhood and sexual desires
  • Chapter 2: Be careful with me: education, sexual violence, and pleasure
  • Chapter Three: Get in formation: sisterhood and the intergenerational dynamic
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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