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Behind the mask of the strong black woman : voice and the embodiment of a costly performance / Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Black--Psychology.
- Women, Black.
- Women, Black--Social conditions.
- Character.
- Determination (Personality trait).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The defining quality of Black womanhood is strength, states Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant in Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman. But, she argues, the idea of strength undermines its real function: to defend and maintain a stratified social order by obscuring Black women's experiences of suffering, acts of desperation, and anger. This provocative book lays bare the common perception that strength is an exemplary or defining quality of "authentic" Black womanhood.The author, a noted sociologist, interviews 58 Black women about being strong and proud, to illustrate their "perform
- Contents:
- A half-told tale of black womanhood
- More than "the historical, the monolithic me" : deconstructing strong black womanhood
- Living the lies : embodying "good" womanhood
- Keeping up appearances : the performance of strength
- Lies make us sick : embodied distress among strong black women
- Coming to voice : transcending strength
- Epilogue : mules no more, just "levelly human" : a societal challenge.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612329050
- 9781282329058
- 1282329057
- 9781592136698
- 1592136699
- OCLC:
- 437407105
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