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Black macho and the myth of the superwoman / Michele Wallace.
Van Pelt Library E185.86 .W34 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Michele.
- Series:
- Verso classics ; 26.
- Verso classics ; 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men.
- African American women.
- African Americans--Psychology.
- African Americans.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- United States.
- Identity (Psychology)--United States.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 228 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 1999.
- Summary:
- Michele Wallace blasts the masculinist bias of 1960s Black politics, showing how women remained marginalised by the patriarchal culture of Black Power. She describes the ways in which traditional, male-identified myths of Black womanhood block the development of a separate female subjectivity.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: London ; New York : Verso, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859842968
- OCLC:
- 41579237
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