E-book
Toward an intellectual history of Black women
Record details
- ISBN: 1469620928
- ISBN: 9781469620923
- ISBN: 1469623102
- ISBN: 9781469623108
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Toward an intellectual history of black women -- PART I: Diasporic beginnings -- Born on the sea from Guinea: women's spiritual middle passages in the early black Atlantic -- Phillis Wheatley, a public intellectual -- The Hart sisters of Antigua: evangelical activism and "respectable" public politics in the era of black Atlantic slavery -- PART II: Race and gender in the postemancipation era -- The battle for womanhood is the battle for race: black women and nineteenth-century racial thought -- A taste of the lash of criticism: racial progress, self-defense, and Christian intellectual thought in the work of Amelia E. Johnson -- Frances E.W. Harper and the politics of intellectual maturity -- PART III: Redefining the subject of study -- Ann Petry's Harlem -- Daughter of Haiti: Marie Viewx Chauvet -- The polarities of space: segregation and Alice Walker's intervention in Southern Studies -- Story, history, discourse: Maryse Condé's Segu and Afrodiasporic historical narration -- PART IV: Intellectual activism -- From ladies to women: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and women's political activism in post-world war II Nigeria -- Living by the word: June Jordan and Alice Walker's quest for a redemptive art and politics -- Not to rely completely on the courts: Florynce Kennedy and black feminist leadership in the reproductive rights battle -- Professor Merze Tate: diplomatic historian, cosmopolitan woman -- PART V: The long view -- Histories, fictions, and black womanhood bodies: race and gender in twenty-first-century politics -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Women, Black -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Intellectual life African American women -- Intellectual life |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
