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... Hortense Spillers Black feminisms gender Black womanhood Black femininity On May 9, 2023, the New York Times ran an article titled “When Should Women Get Regular Mammograms? At Forty, US Panel Now Says” (Rabin 2023 ). To explicate the response to the question that the article title both poses...

... marks of ungendered black womanhood that are not standard, institutionalized grammar in Black Studies. Spillers begins to talk that real talk in this sentence in the earlier draft. She winks to the readers who might also be blackened, ungendered women who “know no living woman . . . who gauges herself...

..., John. Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory. Post-Contemporary Interventions. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. Black, Barbara J. On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums. Victorian Literature and Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000...

.... Intimacies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Brody, Jennifer DeVere. Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. Brown, Jayna. Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Mod- ern. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. Campbell...

... desire that read today less as radical and more as backward. Genet's failure—as Amin ( 2017 : 6) says, his failure “to behave in the ways that I hoped he would”—is a “failure endemic to the project of revalorizing deviance.” 7 Genet's work with the Black Panthers and with Palestinians seems...

... to Pete, another black student protester, that when Richard, the murdered blues musician whom she knew in childhood, had 5. W. B. Yeats, The Collected Works, Volume 1: The Poems, rev. ed., ed. Richard J. Finne- gan (New York: Scribners, 1997), 190. 66 boundary 2 / Fall 2006 returned home, ‘‘he...

..., it says something very profound about a par- ticular form of womanly nihilism that flourishes as a substitute for women s 11. This is not the only place where Beauvoir s work is usefully put into conversation with Frantz Fanon s Black Skin/White Masks (2008). Like Beauvoir, Fanon presses at the limits...

...), predicated on his “appearance” rather than, unlike the Jew to the anti-Semite, the “idea” of the object (116). In the cultural scheme that Fanon proposes, the historical subject of Blackness is not only caught up in the play of phylogeny (or the inheritance of biological humanness as species) and ontogeny...

.../478364 . Mann Thomas . 1990 . The Black Swan . Translated by Willard R. Trask. Berkeley : University of California Press . Mann Thomas . 1991 . Collected Stories . Translated by Porter-Lowe H. T. , with an introduction by Daniel Johnson . London : Everyman Library...

...-ballad. The title of the epic poem, “The Anniad,” puts the lived experiences of an urban Black woman in conversation with the traditions of the epic as read through the Iliad and the Odyssey . The final section of the book is “The Womanhood.” It includes fifteen poems. Much is made of Brooks's...

... dress propels her above racial legacies. Vested with black blood, Clotel futilely flees her history, but dressed in the costume of white womanhood, she has neither history nor body to worry about. In mock address...

... apparent than in the United States, where the resurgence of political religion has responded very precisely to the massive disruption of household politics that occurred in the late 1960s, under the triple pressure of the feminist, gay, and black liberation movements. Here it needs to be recalled...