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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
... the possibility that enslaved 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...
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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 (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 (2018) 29 (2): 126–153.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of Feminist Cultural Studies 2018 black women interracial marriage community racial identity white men dating It is a beautiful wedding, set in an outdoor garden. The black bride, gorgeous in her white dress, is about to be married to her ideal black man. But just before they kiss, a siren...
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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
... intervention into silence around sexual violence. However, despite the criticism that the 2017 #MeToo moment only made the issue legible because wealthy, attractive, white women became the face of it, I think it also offers an opportunity to speak specifically to issues of women and labor and the myths around...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 103–132.
Published: 01 September 2007
... 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. ____. The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement . New York: Oxford up, 2006 . ____. “What's...
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differences (1991) 3 (2): 101–111.
Published: 01 July 1991
... culture, 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...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2015
... circulation. (We will return to this history below.) Traditionally, white women have “embod[ied] interiority for others ” (Osucha 57). Not surprisingly, the vitriol directed toward “sluts” is proportional to the horror expressed at the suffering of “real victims,” where real victims are “good,” “enclosed...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of the temptress or seductress. This image shifted over the course of the nineteenth century through the national embrace of the “cult of white womanhood,” which distanced white women from women of color through an emphasis on “passionlessness” (Cott, “Passionlessness”). 10 See esp. Sommerville. Sommer...
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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 (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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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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