Gender and the abjection of Blackness / Sabine Broeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bröck-Sallah, Sabine, 1954- author.

Series:

SUNY series in gender theory.

SUNY series in gender theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Racism.

Womanism.

Feminism.

Intersectionality (Sociology).

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York, [2018]

Summary:

In Gender and the Abjection of Blackness, Sabine Broeck argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient account of Black contributions, and that more than being an ethnocentric limitation or blind spot, this has represented a structural anti-Blackness in the field. Engaging with the work of Black feminist authors Sylvia Wynter, Hortense Spillers, and Saidiya Hartman, Broeck critiques a selection of canonical white gender studies texts to make this case. The book discusses this problem at the core of gender theory as a practice which Broeck terms enslavism—the ongoing abjection of Black life which Hartman has called the afterlife of slavery. This has become manifest in the repetitive employment of the "woman as slave" metaphor so central to gender theory, as well as in recent theoretical mutations of these anti-Black politics of analogy. It is the structural separation of Blackness from gender that has functioned over and again as the scaffold enabling white women's struggles for successful recognition of equality and subjectivity in the human world as we know it. This book challenges white readers to rethink their own untroubled identification with gender theory, and it provides all readers with a white feminist theorist's sophisticated theoretical and self-critical scholarly account of her own reckoning with and learning in dialogue from Black feminism's critique.

Contents:

Against gender. Enslavism and the subjects of feminism

Abolish property: Black feminist struggles against anti-Blackness

Gender and the grammar of enslavism

Abjective returns: the slave's fungibility in white gender studies

Post gender, post human: Braidotti 's Nietzschean echoes of anti-blackness

On dispossession as a false analogy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438470412

143847041X