Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415073367 ISBN 13: 9780415073363

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

About the Author:

Stanlie M. James is Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Abena P. A. Busia is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Women's Studies at Rutgers University.

Review:

The eighteen essays in Theorizing Black Feminisms push the boundaries of Black women's social theory. Overall, this interdisciplinary anthology emphasizes the necessity of linking caring, theoretical vision with informed, practical struggle. . . . Theorizing Black Feminisms' essays demonstrate that Black women's lives are not defined by the narrow confines of race, class and gender oppression. Never losing sight of the dignity of everyday struggle ... many Black women manage to theorize about a better society. . . . As the many perspectives presented in Theorizing Black Feminisms illustrate, arriving at some predetermined destination is less important than struggling for some ethical end; and dignity is achieved in struggling for something worthwhile.
–Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought

Black people have long been silent on the subject of sexuality, at least partly because white society has stereotyped black women as promiscuous and black men as oversexed. But today, scholars like Andrea Benton Rushing, a professor of English at Amherst College, are drwaing on searing personal experiences to open up discussion.
–Karen J. Winkler, The Chronicle of Higher Education

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0415073367
• ISBN 13: 9780415073363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Stanlie M. James, Abena P.A. Busia