{"product_id":"black-womanhood-9780295987712","title":"Black Womanhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. This book examines an especially charged icon - the black female body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rather than recycling the colonial approach to power and subjectivity, which defines the self through the ridicule of the other, \u003ci\u003eBlack Womanhood\u003c\/i\u003e provides various textual, visual, and personal tactics that can contribute to re-imagining a more humane way forward.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Woman's Art Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Twenty years ago, Barbara Kruger coined her now-infamous slogan, 'your body is a battleground,' in a campaign to increase awareness of how women's bodies are marketed as commodities. Visually stunning and intellectually provocative, \u003ci\u003eBlack Womanhood\u003c\/i\u003e resurrects that dialogue and complicates an embattled body in which blackness is a catalyst, surface, symbol, subject, and object that, while transformative on many levels, continues to appear alarmingly vulnerable to exploitation and stereotyping.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * caa.reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A serious academic endeavor, suitable for scholars and the general public alike.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Book News *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This collection of essays is as richly insightful as it is beautifully produced. . . . The originality of the images and interpretations make this catalogue essential to understanding how fully clothed the unclothed body truly is.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Publisher's Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLenders to the Exhibition\u003cbr\u003e Foreword \/ Brian P. Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \/ Barbara Thompson\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Barbara Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One | Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e 1. The African Female Body in the Cultural Imagination \/ Barbara Thompson\u003cbr\u003e 2. African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Neo-Crusaders \/ Ifi Amadiume\u003cbr\u003e 3. Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Art \/ Enid Schildkrout\u003cbr\u003e Plates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two | Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Black Female Body, the Postcard, and the Archives \/ Christraud Geary\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Body of a Myth: Embodying the Black Mammy Figure in Visual Culture \/ Kimberly Wallace-Sanders\u003cbr\u003e Plates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Three | Meaning and Identity: Personal Journeys into \u003ci\u003eBlack Womanhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Picturing the New Negro Woman \/ Deborah Willis\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Women Who Posed: Maudelle Bass and Florence Allen \/ Carla Williams\u003cbr\u003e 8. Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Clixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Backer \/ Ayo Abiétou Coly\u003cbr\u003e 9. Decolonizing Black Bodies: Personal Journeys in the Contemporary Voice \/ Barbara Thompson\u003cbr\u003e Plates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArtists\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400915722583,"sku":"9780295987712","price":50.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295987712.jpg?v=1730471937","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-womanhood-9780295987712","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}