| Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics Contributor(s): Jordan-Zachery, Julia S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813593395 ISBN-13: 9780813593395 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Political Science | Women In Politics |
| Dewey: 305.488 |
| LCCN: 2017014955 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.49" W x 8.85" (0.65 lbs) 214 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |