Shadow Bodies
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9339-5 (ISBN)
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.
JULIA S. JORDAN-ZACHERY is a professor of public and community service and director of the Black Studies Program at Providence College in Rhode Island. She is the author of the award-winning book Black Women, Cultural Images, and Social Policy.
Preface vii
Introduction 1
1 Different Streams of Knowledge: Theoretically Situating This Study 19
2 Inscribing and the Black (Female) Body Politic 30
3 Uncovering Talk across Time and Space: Black Women Elected Officials, Essence and Ebony, and Black Female Bloggers 52
4 “Safe, Soulful Sex”: HIV/AIDS Talk 76
5 Killing Me Softly: Narratives on Domestic Violence and Black Womanhood 101
6 “Why So Many Sisters Are Mad and Sad”: Talking about Black Women with Mental Illnesses 124
7 Sister Speak: Using Intersectionality in Our Political and Policy Strategizing 140
Appendix 157
Acknowledgments 163
Notes 165
References 169
Index 195
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.10.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 illustration |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 286 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-9339-5 / 0813593395 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-9339-5 / 9780813593395 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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