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differences (2010) 21 (1): 32–47.
Published: 01 May 2010
...—Ernest Hemingway's most written-about story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”—to attempt to expand the theoretical boundaries of black feminist literary study in the twenty-first century. Because of its gender politics, its showcasing of heroic white manhood and its manhandling of white women...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 69–93.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to establish forms of equivalence between the power of the mistress and that of the master. Because this normalization of white women’s power nonetheless relies on standards of historiographical interpretation—the predominance of political economy, the imperatives of affect and agency—it does not sufficiently...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 191–195.
Published: 01 September 2018
... through to the backlash from a recent Cheerios advertisement featuring an adorable little girl urging the heart-healthy benefits of oat cereal to her black father and white mother. (It was a blowback so hateful that Cheerios had to take down its website.) So marriage between black men and women...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2019
... women could have been “gender activists operating independently of feminism’s official white foremothers or, even more radically, as their predecessors in recognizing and resisting gender subordination” (465). Although many critics have assessed archival influences on Zong! , few have remarked on Zong...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 79–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Clare Hemmings As a way of trying to ensure that feminism remains accountable and inclusive, there is an institutional tendency to multiply the subjects and objects of inquiry within women’s and gender studies. While sympathetic to this impulse, this essay also recognizes that such pluralization...
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differences (1995) 7 (2): 127–149.
Published: 01 July 1995
... . London : Verso , 1991 . Rafael Vicente L. “ Colonial Domesticity: White Women and United States Rule in the Philippines .” American Literature (forthcoming). Rafael Vicente L. “ White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the United States Colonization...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 126–153.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and of Perry in Is Marriage for White People? (87–93). 5 Djamba and Kimuna’s 2014 study found no statistically significant difference between the percentage of black women and black men who said they would strongly approve of a relative marrying outside the race (54.3 percent of women and 52.8...
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differences (1997) 9 (3): 31–45.
Published: 01 November 1997
... was to have women included in every branch of knowledge. Has that been accomplished at historically black colleges? Are they operating on a different time line at these institutions? Are there specific and different issues that women's studies has to address on these campuses versus predominantly white ones...
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differences (1991) 3 (1): 128–143.
Published: 01 April 1991
... will always be second-class men. Equally important is the fact that most men are not "men" either. The "men" of white feminism have too often been white, middle-class men; white women, especially, did not seek equality with non-white men. This blindness not only splintered the women's movement through racism...
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 148–162.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of oppression and prescriptions for revolution in Africa and the rest of the Third World. Sexual politics, and consequently psychoanalysis, take center stage in this film. The portrait that emerges is a homophobic, misogynous Fanon obsessed with white women and a white colonial father. At first, the sexual...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 45–71.
Published: 01 July 1992
... story a story of an attempt to build solidarity between "white" and "black" women in an actual union drive. A union drive is clearly a public event, but as we will see, the effort to build the union became inseparable from the need to challenge social fantasies and more particularly, the fantasies which...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 24–33.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of uniting as “women” in protests against Donald Trump, given that 52 percent of white women voted for him ( Mellow 106 ). Other critics lambasted the hat for being “offensive to transgender women and gender nonbinary people who don’t have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 103–132.
Published: 01 September 2007
... American Feminists.” Feminist Studies 27.1 ( 2001 ): 225 -45. Breines, Wini. Rev. of Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Debra L. Schultz and Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement by Constance Curry et al. Signs 30.2 ( 2005 ): 1670 -74...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2015
... with the crime of rape deepened. By the end of the century, southerners were justifying lynching as a means of protecting the sexual honor of white women and calling for the disenfranchisement of black men” (93). This crisis over the breached sexuality of white, female, potential virgins plays out with each new...
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differences (1991) 3 (2): 101–111.
Published: 01 July 1991
..., in this particular historical moment, to embrace Black lesbians as "sisters" without hesitation. Racism and class privilege prevent this, as Barbara Smith points out. As Third World women we clearly have a different relationship to racism than white women, but all oj us are born into an environment where racism...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2019
... (Cott, Public )—is even more complex with respect to those subjects whom the nation’s founders partially or fully excluded from the category of citizen-subject: (at least) women, enslaved people, and children. Through the norm of coverture, white women’s consent was valuable only in the private sphere...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 92–117.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the white women shrink before my eyes, losing their fluidity of argument, of confidence, pause awkwardly at the word ‘race,’ the word ‘color.’ The pauses keeping the voices breathless, the bodies taut, erect—unable to breathe deeply, to laugh, to moan in despair, to cry in regret. I cannot continue to use...
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differences (1999) 11 (3): 107–136.
Published: 01 December 1999
... Movements . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994 . Lee, Rachel. “ The Prisonhouse of White Women's Exclusions: Now What? for Women of Color .” Wiegman,ed. Lowe, Lisa. “The International Within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique.” Cultural Critique 40 (Fall 1998 ): 29 –47...
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differences (1997) 9 (3): 79–101.
Published: 01 November 1997
... in and after Bowers v. Hardwick .” Virginia Law Review 79 ( 1993 ): 1721 – 80 . Hill Collins Patricia . Black Feminist Thought . New York : Routledge , 1981 . Hurtado Aida . “ Relating to Privilege: Seduction and Rejection in the Subordination of White Women and Women of Color...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 21–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
...-Genovese Elizabeth . Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South . Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina P , 1988 . Franke Katherine . Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality . New York : New York UP , 2017 . Frazier E. Franklin . The Negro Family...
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