The Routledge companion to Black women's cultural histories / edited by Janell Hobson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hobson, Janell, 1973- editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to gender.

Routledge companions to gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black--Social conditions.

Women, Black.

Women, Black--Social life and customs.

Women, Black--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"In the social and cultural histories of women and feminism, Black women have long been overlooked or ignored. The Routledge Companion to Black Women's Cultural Histories is an impressive and comprehensive reference work for contemporary scholarship on the cultural histories of Black women across the diaspora spanning different eras from ancient times into the twenty-first century. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts: A Fragmented Past, An Inclusive Future Contested Histories, Subversive Memories Gendered Lives, Racial Frameworks Cultural Shifts, Social Change, Black Identities, Feminist Formations Within these sections a diverse range of women, places and issues are explored including: The Queen of Sheba, Black Women in Early Modern European Art and Culture, Enslaved Muslim Women in the Antebellum United States, Sally Hemings, and Phillis Wheatley, Black women writers in Early 20th Century Paris, Black women, Civil Rights, South African Apartheid, and sexual violence and resistance in the United States in recent history. The Routledge Companion to Black Women's Cultural Histories is essential reading for students and researchers in Gender Studies, History, Africana Studies and Cultural Studies"--

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Endorsement

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

The Routledge Companion to Black Women's Cultural Histories: An Introduction by Janell Hobson

Part I A fragmented past, an inclusive future

Chapter 1 Women are from Africa and men are from Europe

Chapter 2 Priestess, queen, goddess: The divine feminine in the kingdom of Kush

Chapter 3 Queen Balqis, "Queen of Sheba"

Chapter 4 Black women in early modern European art and culture

Chapter 5 Black women in early modern Spanish literature

Chapter 6 The legend of Lucy Negro

Chapter 7 (Anti-)colonial assemblages: The history and reformulations of Njinga Mbande

Part II Contested histories, subversive memories

Chapter 8 Preserving the memories of precolonial Nigeria: Cultural narratives of precolonial heroines

Chapter 9 Nana Asma'u: A model for literate women Muslims

Chapter 10 Finding "Fatima" among enslaved Muslim women in the antebellum United States

Chapter 11 Phillis Wheatley and New England slavery

Chapter 12 Sally Hemings: Writing the life of an enslaved woman

Chapter 13 The persistence of Félicité Kina in the world of the Haitian Revolution: Kinship, gender, and everyday resistance

Chapter 14 The then and now of subjugation and empowerment: Marie Benoist's Portrait d'une négresse (1800)

Part III Gendered lives, racial frameworks

Chapter 15 A history of Black women in nineteenth-century France

Chapter 16 Living free: Self-emancipated women and queer formations of freedom

Chapter 17 "Blood, fire, and freedom": Enslaved women and rebellion in nineteenth-century Cuba

Chapter 18 Black women and Africana abolitionism

Chapter 19 Ethiopia's woke women: The nineteenth century re-imagines Africa.

Chapter 20 Singing power/sounding identity: The Black woman's voice from hidden Hush Arbors to the popular

Chapter 21 Jamettes, mas, and bacchanal: A culture of resistance in Trinidad and Tobago

Part IV Cultural shifts, social change

Chapter 22 Wives and warriors: The royal women of Dahomey as representatives of the kingdom

Chapter 23 Reframing Yaa Asantewaa through the shifting paradigms of African historiography

Chapter 24 The Aba Women's War of 1929 in Eastern Nigeria as anti-colonial protest

Chapter 25 Black women writers in early twentieth-century Paris

Chapter 26 The transnational Black feminist politics of Claudia Jones

Chapter 27 Confronting apartheid: Black women's internationalism in South Africa and the United States

Chapter 28 Black feminisms, queer feminisms, trans feminisms: Meditating on Pauli Murray, Shirley Chisholm, and Marsha P. Johnson against the erasure of history

Part V Black identities, feminist formations

Chapter 29 Traces of race, roots of gender: A genetic history

Chapter 30 Is twerking African?: Dancing and diaspora as embodied knowledge on YouTube

Chapter 31 Sites of resistance: Black women and beauty in Black Brazilian communities of São Paulo and Bahia

Chapter 32 Hail to the chefs: Black women's pedagogy, sacred kitchenspaces, and Afro-Diasporic religions

Chapter 33 Black women's feminist literary renaissance of the late twentieth century

Chapter 34 Black women, sexual violence, and resistance in the United States

Chapter 35 African women's political leadership: Global lessons for feminism

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-24357-X

0-429-51329-1

9780429243578

OCLC:

1235418632