Description In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C.
Nash is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography , also published by Duke University Press, and editor of Gender: Love ..
About the author Jennifer C.
Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can Black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash Black feminist theory\'s visionary world-making possibilities.
As Intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that Black Feminism has been marked by a single affect--defensiveness--manifested by efforts to police intersectionality\'s usages and circulations.
Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of Intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women\'s studies has both elevated Intersectionality to the discipline\'s primary program-building initiative and cast Intersectionality as a threat to feminism\'s coherence.
Nash reframes Black feminism\'s engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory.
Description In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C
