Black British Feminism: A Reader

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Heidi Safia Mirza
Psychology Press, 1997 - Literary Criticism - 306 pages

Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed during the last two decades.
Among the topics covered are:
* white feminism
* political activism
* 'mixed-race' identity
* class differences
* cultural hybridity
* autobiography
* black beauty
* religious fundamentalism
* national belonging
* lesbian identity
* postcolonial space
* popular culture
This timely and important book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, women's studies, sociology, literature and postcolonial studies.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Mapping a genealogy of Black British feminism
1
Defining our space
13
Asian women in Britain
31
Black womens lives in Britain
42
Challenging imperial feminism
54
Theories of gender and black families
63
Deviance or difference?
70
Misrepresenting the black superwoman
97
Autobiography as an identificatory
153
On theorizing diaspora
168
Fractured or flexible identities? Life histories of black diasporic
187
The nation
205
How does a Black woman do sociology?
226
The fabulous adventures of the mahogany princesses
240
Changing our place
253
A collective movement for social
269

young Black female constructions of beauty
113
On lineage
127
Index
298
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About the author (1997)

Heidi Safia Mirza is Reader in Sociology at South Bank University, London. She is author of Young, Female and Black (Routledge 1992).

Bibliographic information

TitleBlack British Feminism: A Reader
EditorHeidi Safia Mirza
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPsychology Press, 1997
ISBN0415152887, 9780415152884
Length306 pages
Subjects ›  ›  › 

Literary Criticism / General
Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
Social Science / Discrimination
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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