Black British feminism : a reader / edited by Heidi Safia Mirza.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 1997Description: xiv, 306p. ; 24 cm001: 43853ISBN: 9780415152891 (pbk.) :; 9780415152884 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Feminist theory -- Great Britain | Ethnic groups -- Great Britain | SocietyDDC classification: 305.48 MIR Summary: Black British Feminism is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. It provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed during the last two decades.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed during the last two decades.
Among the topics covered are:
* white feminism
* political activism
* 'mixed-race' identity
* class differences
* cultural hybridity
* autobiography
* black beauty
* religious fundamentalism
* national belonging
* lesbian identity
* postcolonial space
* popular culture
This timely and important book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, women's studies, sociology, literature and postcolonial studies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Black British Feminism is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. It provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed during the last two decades.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction: Mapping a Geneology of Black British Feminism
- I Shaping the Debate
- 1 Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain
- 2 Black Women, the Economic Crisis and the British State
- 3 Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain
- 4 White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boudaries of Sisterhood
- 5 Challenging Imperial Feminism
- 6 Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Challenge of Racism
- 7 Theories of Gender and Black Families
- 8 Other Kinds of Dreams
- 9 Feminism and the Challenge of Racism: Deviance or Difference?
- II Defining Our Space
- 10 Raregrooves and Raregroovers: A Matter of Taste, Difference and Identity
- 11 (Mis)Representing the Black (Super)Woman Tracey Reynolds
- 12 Shades of Blackness: Young Black Female Constructions of Beauty
- 13 Diaspora's Daughters, Africa's Orphans?: On Lineage, Authenticity, and 'Mixed-Race' Identity
- 14 'It's a sun tan, isn't it?': Auto-biography as an Identificatory Practice
- 15 Charting the Spaces of (un)Location: On Theorising Diaspora Magdalene
- 16 Fractured or Flexible Identities? Life Histories of 'Black' Diasporic Women in Britain
- 17 In my Father's House there are Many Mansions: The Nation and the Postcolonial Desire
- 18 Two Stories, Three Lovers and the Creation of Meaning in a Black Lesbian Autobiography: A Diary Consuelo Rivera
- 19 My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology?
- 20 The Fabulous Adventures of the Mahogany Princesses
- III Changing Our Place
- 21 Third Wave Feminism and Black Women's Activism
- 22 Black Women in Education: A Collective Movement for Social Change
- 23 The Language of 'Womanism': Rethinking 'Difference'
- Bibliography
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