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differences (2019) 30 (1): 126–147.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Shoniqua Roach This essay rereads black feminist engagements with silence and the constellation of terms that vibrate around it—invisibility, interiority, domesticity, privacy—to both demonstrate black feminism’s precarious relationship to silence and indicate the ways in which that contention...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 141–167.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Erica R. Edwards This essay works at the intersection of queer critique and black feminism to elaborate the problem that the incorporation of minority difference into the institutions and imaginaries of contemporary global power poses for our habits of thought in feminist studies. Attending...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 63–91.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of black feminism, bringing us toward a new story—a myth of feminist theory. Thinking further with the relation between water, vessel, and woman invokes Oshun, the Nigerian, Cuban, and Brazilian deity associated with water and love. Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley describes Oshun as the “orisha of sweet water...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 92–117.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Jean-Thomas Tremblay This essay traces an aesthetic genealogy of feminist breathing since the 1970s. Deviating from declension narratives that locate in that decade the end of breathing as a means of feminist socialization and politicization, this essay argues that indigenous and black feminisms...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 64–97.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of care and agency affecting black women in the United States directly embodies a politics of intersectional feminism that aligns thematically with the Brooklyn Museum show. The fact that these two exhibits took place during the consecutive summers of 2016 and 2017 places them squarely within a period...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 103–132.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Love Got to Do with It? White Women, Black Women, and Feminism in the Movement Years.” Signs 27.4 ( 2002 ): 1095 -1134. Chang, Elaine. “Last Past the Post: Theory, Futurity, Feminism.” DeKoven, Feminist Locations 60 -74. Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge...
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differences (1997) 9 (3): 31–45.
Published: 01 November 1997
... years. In the midst of much debate within African American communities about the relevance oj women's studies and the very definition and meanings offeminism, Guy-Sheftall has been unequivocal in her assertion that ''feminism'' is not a foreign concept imposedfrom outside black communities. In her work...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 September 2014
...? ” Journal of Popular Music Studies 24 ( 2012 ): 176 – 95 . Cook Susan . “ ‘r-e-s-p-e-c-t (Find Out What It Means to Me)’: Feminist Musicology and the Abject Popular .” Women and Music 5 ( 2001 ): 140 – 45 . Davis Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 197–227.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... In thinking through this question, I bridge two scholarly conversations: a set of persistent conversations in women’s studies about the politics and ethics of feminism’s institutional projects and a set of conversations emerging from an array of fields including critical legal studies and black feminist...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 68–95.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Gill draws on parts of Gumbs’s gorgeously poetic dissertation, “We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism 1968–1996,” to set up the idea that part of Lorde’s project is imagining the self in a practice of becoming. My thinking here learns from Gumbs’s dissertation, as well...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 8–21.
Published: 01 September 2013
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and embodiments (see Scott). In the 1980s, black feminists began ques-
tioning the exclusive focus on gender in mainstream Western feminism;
they critiqued middle-class white hegemony in feminism’s homogenizing
and universalizing women’s experience...
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differences (1997) 9 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 November 1997
... ‘Tradition’ in a Sudanese Village .” Comparative Studies in Society and History ( 1994 ): 36 – 67 . Brown Wendy . “ Finding the Man in the State .” Feminist Studies 18 . 1 ( 1992 ): 7 – 34 . Busia Abena P. A. , and James Stanlie M. , eds. Theorizing Black Feminisms...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of sex as crime, the confessional risks and rewards of “testimony,” the sadomasochism of Catharine MacKinnon’s influential work, and the political necessity of refusing visibility and speech as the ascribed priorities for black feminist sexual freedom. The final thematic foregrounds the university...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 154–188.
Published: 01 September 2018
...-mix/wp/2017/02/08/beyonce-controversially-sampled-new-orleans-culture-in-Lemonade-now-shes-being-sued-for-it/ . Bale Miriam . “ Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Is a Revolutionary Work of Black Feminism: Critics Notebook .” Billboard.com 25 April 2016 . https://www.billboard.com/articles/news...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 69–93.
Published: 01 September 2021
... into the pleasures of interpretation and speculates on the ways historiography invests in the white woman in order to extend its interlocutory life. ssorentino@ua.edu © 2021 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2021 black feminism historiography of slavery...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 126–145.
Published: 01 July 1994
... . Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women . New York : Routledge , 1993 . Butler Judith . Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York : Routledge , 1993 . Carby Hazel . “ The Multicultural Wars .” Wallace and Dent 187 – 99...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
.../nate-parker-rape-smear-campaign . Nash Jennifer . “ Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality .” Meridians 11 . 2 ( 2011 ): 1 – 24 . “ Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to Be Associate Justice of The Supreme Court of The United States: Hearings...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 27–61.
Published: 01 July 1994
... are reflected in the university curricula in women's studies, you will be struck by omissions and silences. In her background preliminary study on this theme, Marischka Verbeek argues that whereas U.S.-style black feminism is well represented in most European courses, issues closer to local realities are more...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 262–279.
Published: 01 December 2022
... analytic love as a transformative practice through which subjects affiliate with one another as subjects rather than as objects. In considering the importance of love to solidarity, the work of Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Black feminist theory is mobilized to offer two short readings of Toni...
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differences (1996) 8 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 April 1996
... to position the black feminist on the side ofpolitics, but not theory, as body rather than mind: "Is it purely accidental that Sojourner Truth comes to represent the politics but not the poetics that feminism needs" (159)? Not only is the theory/practice opposition left undisturbed in these cases, but Truth's...
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