Black feminism reimagined: after intersectionality, paperback/jennifer c. nash

Description In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C.

Nash reframes black feminisms engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory.

Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how womens studies has both elevated intersectionality to the disciplines primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminisms coherence.

As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect--defensiveness--manifested by efforts to police intersectionalitys usages and circulations.

Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theorys visionary world-making possibilities.

About the author Jennifer C.

Nash is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography , also published by Duke University Press, and editor of Gender: Love .