Challenging misrepresentations of Black womanhood : media, literature and theory /: media, literature and theory. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marquita M. Gammage and Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers.
• Editors: Gammage, Marquita Marie, 1983-; Alameen-Shavers, Antwanisha
• Contents: <span data-sheets-value="{" data-sheets-userformat="{">List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Marquita Gammage; Part I: Historical Conceptualizations; Historical Miseducation on Black Womanhood, Donnetrice Allison; Part II: Motherhood and Mother-Right under Question; The Virility of the Haitian Womb: The Biggest Threat to the Dominican Right, Daly Guilamo; “Black Women Are Genius!”: The Image of Celebrated Black Motherhood in Stand-Up Comedy?, Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers; Self-Perceptions and Strategies of Self-Determination among Black Women Student Parents on Campus, Sureshi M. Jayawardene and Serie McDougal III; Part III: Media, Literature and Public Perceptions of Black Womanhood; Exploring Contemporary Stereotypes of Black Womanhood in Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’, Raquel Kennon; Ladyhood in Distress: Black Politics in Nicole Sconiers’s ‘Escape from Beckyville’, Jalondra A. Davis; Representing the Black Woman as Immoral and Abandoning the Black Family: A Cultural Analysis of 21st Century Television Dramas Starring Black Women, Marquita Gammage; Part IV: Politics and Public Implications; Sapphires Gone Wild: The Politics of Black Women’s Respectability in the Age of the Ratchet, De Anna J. Reese and Delia C. Gillis; Michelle Obama Laughs: Political Meme Warfare and the Regurgitation of the Mythological Black Woman, Kiedra Taylor; Part V: Advocacy, Activism and Affirmation of Black Womanhood; Kawaida Womanism as an Interpretative Framework for Understanding Africana Womanhood: Analyzing African American Women’s Self-Perceptions, Marquita Gammage; List of Contributors; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 198 pages)
• Subjects: 305.48896073; Women, Black; Women, Black, in popular culture; Body image in women; Women in art; Women in literature; Womanism; Noires; Noires dans la culture populaire; Image du corps chez la femme; Femmes dans l'art; Femmes dans la littérature; Womanisme; Body image in women; Womanism; Women, Black; Women, Black, in popular culture; Women in art; Women in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1783089385; 9781783089383; 1783089393; 9781783089390
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.