Black French women and the struggle for equality, 1848-2016 / edited and with an introduction by Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher ; foreword by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Germain, Félix F., editor.

Larcher, Silyane, ditor.

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean, writer of introduction.

Series:

France overseas

France overseas : studies in empire and decolonization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights--France.

Women's rights.

Women, Black.

Social conditions.

France.

Women, Black--France--Social conditions.

Women, Black--Legal status, laws, etc--France.

France--Race relations.

Race relations.

Women, Black--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xx, 270 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how Black women--in France, the French Caribbean, Réunion Island, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis--experienced and reacted to French colonialism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Introduction : Marianne is also Black / Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher

Part 1. Black women in politics and society. Originaire women and political life in Senegal's four communes / Hilary Jones

Christiane Taubira, a Black woman in politics in French Guiana and in France / Stéphanie Guyon

A passion for justice : the role of women in the Aliker case / Monique Milia-Marie-Luce

Part 2. Feminist and postcolonial movements for equality. French Caribbean feminism in the postdepartmentalization era / Félix Germain

The end of silence : on the revival of Afrofeminism in contemporary France / Silyane Larcher

Gerty Archimède and the struggle for decolonial citizenship in the French Antilles, 1946-51 / Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

Part 3. Respectability, resistance, and transnational identities. A Black woman's life in the struggle : Jean McNair in France / Tyler Stovall

Am I my sister's keeper? The politics of propriety and the fight for equality in the works of French Antillean women writers, 1920s-40s / Jacqueline Couti

Between respectability and resistance : French Caribbean women confronted by masculine domination during the second half of the twentieth century / Stéphanie Mulot and Nadine Lefaucheur

Part 4. The dialectics between body, nation, and representation. Media and the politics of "re-presentation" of the Black female body / Sarah Fila-Bakabadio

Shaking the racial and gender foundations of France : the influences of "Sarah Baartmann" in the production of Frenchness / Robin Mitchell

Part 5. Black women critique the "empire". Discourse on immigration : Fatou Diome's commitment to human rights in The belly of the Atlantic / Joseph Diémé

Remapping the metropolis : theorizing Black women's subjectivities in interwar Paris / Claire Oberon Garcia

Social imaginaries in tension? The women of Cameroon's battle for equal rights under French rule at the turn of the 1940s-50s / Rose Ndengue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496201270

1496201272

OCLC:

1031904837