A "Sense of Presence": The "me of me" in Black Girlhoods. Issue 1 (1st March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mitchell, Claudia; Smith, Ann
• Is Part Of: Girlhood studies. Volume 15:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: v
• Page End: ix
• Publication Date: 2022-03-01
• Subjects: Girls -- Periodicals; Girls -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Girls -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Girls -- Education -- Periodicals; Girls -- Sexual behavior -- Periodicals; Girls -- Health and hygiene -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Periodicals; 305.23082
• DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2022.150101
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1938-8209

Abstract

Abstract : We begin by paying tribute to feminist Black scholar, bell hooks, who died 15 December 2021. As the numerous citations in just this issue alone bear witness, she has had a huge influence on feminist ways of thinking particularly in relation to how race, gender, and capitalism intersect. In her well-known essay, "In Our Glory" on Black girlhood and visual culture (hooks 1994 ), she offers a memory of losing a photograph of herself as a young girl in the 1950s masquerading, as she called it, in full cowgirl regalia.