Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman...

The Nation;  April 30, 1988 ;   Gomez, Jewelle;   538 words ......unusual practice in the black literature of that period...exploring and debating black women's writing. She also...places the genesis of black feminist criticism in academia. While the...publications. Smith's Toward a Black Feminist Criticism first appeared in ...

Black marriage revisited

Novel;  April 1, 1996 ;   Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean;   787 words ......subjectivity and sexuality, and black feminist criticism. Skillfully weaving these...I find her critique of black feminist criticism and the notion of tradition...is equally contestable. Black feminist criticism, she maintains, "often...

Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980.(Book...

The Journal of African American History;  March 22, 2006 ;   Harris, Duchess;   787 words ......Springer, Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980. Durham: Duke...goal is to explore the life cycle of black feminist organizations in the 1970s within their...organizing emerged. According to Springer, black feminist organizations were formed in reaction...

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, and Poetics

Anthropological Quarterly;  April 1, 2002 ;   Moses, Yolanda T;   787 words ...BOOK REVIEW Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics...This volume studies the meaning of black feminist anthropology and challenges the...feminist theory in anthropology. This Black feminist anthropology "constructs its own...

Author discusses gender, race at U. Connecticut

University Wire;  March 16, 2007 ;   Katie Uhlan;   487 words ......Evelyn Simien lectured on her book "Black Feminist Voices in Politics." Simien, a professor...lives and works of women vital to the black feminist movement, including Anna Julia Cooper...Simien also showed how to identify a black feminist. From 1993 to 1994, and again from...

(book reviews)

Criticism;  January 1, 1998 ;   Newman, Karen;   787 words ......to acknowledge that the black/white or dark/light binarism...which opens his White over Black: American Attitudes toward...oppositions, especially of black and white so widespread...portraits that include a black servant. In her readings...relation to debates in black feminist ...

Harvesting Willa Cather's literary fields.

The Geographical Review;  April 1, 1995 ;   Rundstrom, Beth;   787 words ......propose a theoretical foundation called feminist criticism. Currently, there is general agreement...novelist Willa Cather in this framework. FEMINIST CRITICISM The purpose of feminist criticism is to produce a reading of gendered...

In Recognition of Women Revolutionaries

The Crisis;  March 1, 2005 ;   Gaines, Patrice;   787 words ......Revolutionaries Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 By Kimberly...States and the unprecedented growth in Black feminist consciousness from 1968 to 1980. Springer...depth descriptions and analyses of black feminist organizations that contributed to the...

Autobiographical criticism.

Intertexts;  March 22, 2006 ;   Kaminsky, Amy;   787 words ......feminist critical practice. Contemporary feminist criticism in the United States began with second...feminist movement. To that extent, feminist criticism began as an autobiographical gesture...but because through the practice of feminist criticism we were producing our personal, ...

The hard work of organizing.(Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist...

The Women's Review of Books;  September 1, 2006 ;   Rose, Tricia;   787 words ...Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 By Kimberly...now, I've focused in my classes on black feminist thought and practice on conveying the...really--has been written on what exactly black feminist organizations did, why they did it...

Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism.(Book review)

Medium Aevum;  September 22, 2007 ;   Bialystok, Sandra;   505 words ...Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism, ed. Thomas C. Stillinger...when combining Boccaccio with feminist criticism. In order not to privilege...considering Boccaccio and feminist criticism, and also pose questions that...

Australian feminist literary history: around 1981.

Hecate;  May 1, 1993 ;   Sheridan, Susan;   787 words ......too few Australian anthologies of feminist criticism for me to follow Gallop's symptomatic...Sexual Difference(2) and The New Feminist Criticism(3)), it was centrally concerned not...well as the argument about whether feminist criticism should be defined as the study of...

Still ain't satisfied.(Barbara Smith's book about African-American...

The Women's Review of Books;  June 1, 1999 ;   Flanders, Laura;   787 words ......River Collective, a Black feminist consciousness-raising...documents of the era, A Black Feminist Statement. The major...how today's body of Black feminist writing and literature...that period, Toward a Black Feminist Criticism and The Truth That Never...Smith's ...

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom.(Review)

The Women's Review of Books;  June 1, 1999 ;   Flanders, Laura;   787 words ......River Collective, a Black feminist consciousness-raising...documents of the era, A Black Feminist Statement. The major...how today's body of Black feminist writing and literature...that period, Toward a Black Feminist Criticism and The Truth That Never...Smith's ...

Fighting Words: Black Women & The Search For Justice

Ethnic Studies Review;  January 1, 1998 ;     526 words ......Words builds on her previous work, Black Feminist Thought, as she explores standpoint...position and their usefulness for Black feminist thought. She structures her analysis...injustice. Using and problematizing Black feminist thought as a critical social theory...