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Article: Recovering the Black Female Body: Self Representations by African American Women.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Michael Bennett and Vanessa Dickerson, ed. Recovering the Black Female Body: Self Representations by African American Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000. 331 pp. $52.00 cloth/$22.00 paper.
Dynamic in scope and complexity, Recovering the Black Female Body, edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa Dickerson, should not be missed. This is a major critical text focusing on Black women's subjectivity, forms of individual and group agency, and recovery. Contributors reconstruct the body of black womanhood without becoming absorbed in discussions of the "oppressive gaze" imposed by others. In this way the collection successfully highlights counter-hegemonic processes ...