UID:
edocfu_9959677623702883
Format:
1 online resource (185 pages).
ISBN:
1-4780-0225-5
Series Statement:
Next wave
Content:
In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect—defensiveness—manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.
Note:
A love letter from a critic, or notes on the intersectionality wars -- The politics of reading -- Surrender -- Love in the time of death -- Coda: Some of us are tired.
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Issued also in print.
Additional Edition:
Online version: Nash, Jennifer C., 1980- author. Black feminism reimagined Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781478002253
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478002253
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478002253
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478002253
