{"product_id":"shadow-bodies-black-women-ideology-representation-and-politics-9780813593401","title":"Shadow Bodies Black Women Ideology Representation and Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV\/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some black female bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShadow Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e engages the work of Hurston and Morrison, Beyonce and Rihanna, in a theoretically nuanced examination of the scripts of Black Women’s bodies in popular and political culture. It highlights the material consequences of silence and rhetoric, and is an extraordinarily good example of interdisciplinary, intersectional, engaged political science.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Renee Ann Cramer * author of Pregnant with the Stars: Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Shadow Bodies \u003c\/i\u003etakes the reader on a sobering journey through aspects of black womanhood that are usually divorced from social scientific inquiry: how personal experiences with and public discourses about domestic violence, HIV\/AIDS, and mental illness shape black women’s political socialization. Embracing classic formulations in black feminist thought, the author bravely exposes and deconstructs the forced silences that black women must break as we move ever more fully into American public life.”\u003cbr\u003e   -- Zenzele Isoke * author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Different Streams of Knowledge: Theoretically Situating This Study 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Inscribing and the Black (Female) Body Politic 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 Uncovering Talk across Time and Space: Black Women Elected Officials, Essence and Ebony, and Black Female Bloggers 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 “Safe, Soulful Sex”: HIV\/AIDS Talk 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Killing Me Softly: Narratives on Domestic Violence and Black Womanhood 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 “Why So Many Sisters Are Mad and Sad”: Talking about Black Women with Mental Illnesses 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 Sister Speak: Using Intersectionality in Our Political and Policy Strategizing 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 157\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 163\u003cbr\u003e Notes 165\u003cbr\u003e References 169\u003cbr\u003e Index 195","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742328947031,"sku":"9780813593401","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813593401.jpg?v=1758384308","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shadow-bodies-black-women-ideology-representation-and-politics-9780813593401","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}