Gender and the Abjection of Blackness

by Sabine Broeck

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438470401
• ISBN13: 9781438470405
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"