Vengeance feminism : the power of Black women's fury in lawless times / Kali Nicole Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Kali N., 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Violence against.

African American women.

African American women--Crimes against.

Women, Black--Violence against--United States.

Women, Black.

African American women--Crimes against--United States.

Lex talionis--United States.

Lex talionis.

Justification (Ethics).

Retribution.

African American women--Abuse of.

punishing.

Genre:

Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.

Physical Description:

vii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Power of Black women's fury in lawless times

Place of Publication:

New York : Seal Press, 2024.

Summary:

"So often failed by the state, demeaned by racism and sexism, and denied respectable means of redress, Black women have nevertheless patiently resisted myriad injustices. Yet history shows an alternative path. It involved razors, pistols, hatchets, and blackjacks, and playacting for courts and reporters-whatever it took to beat the system. In a world where Black women are castigated and caricatured for being angry, Vengeance Feminism tells the story of those who leaned into their fury, crafting a different kind of ideology that scratched and stabbed and sometimes even succeeded. Vengeance Feminism is about the Black women who hit back-not always figuratively, and not necessarily nobly either. Weaving together historical narrative with Black feminist analysis, Gross illuminates the stories of Black women who fought for their dignity on their own terms, from the nineteenth-century "badger thieves" who robbed men on the streets of Philadelphia to victims of intimate partner violence who defended their honor and bodily autonomy with deadly force. Reckoning with women who lied, robbed, and cheated a racist, misogynistic world, Vengeance Feminism grapples with the volatile power of violence in pursuit of racial and gender justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Their Honor: Black Womanhood on Offense

Their History: Lawlessness and Black Womanhood

Their Weapons: Danger and Survival, On Multiple Fronts

Their Games: Black Badgers, Better Days, and the Limits of Fury

Their Dead: The Three Marias and the Babies in the Privy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781541603462

154160346X

OCLC:

1416697598