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Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom
Denise Noble
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Description for Decolonizing and Feminizing Freedom
Hardback. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 365 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; HBTR; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 621.
This book traces the powerful discourses and embodied practices through which Black Caribbean women have been imagined and produced as subjects of British liberal rule and modern freedom. It argues that in seeking to escape liberalism’s gendered and racialised governmentalities, Black women’s everyday self-making practices construct decolonising and feminising epistemologies of freedom. These, in turn, repeatedly interrogate the colonial logics of liberalism and Britishness. Genealogically structured, the book begins with the narratives of freedom and identity presented by Black British Caribbean women. It then analyses critical moments of crisis in British racial rule at home and abroad in which gender ... Read more
This book traces the powerful discourses and embodied practices through which Black Caribbean women have been imagined and produced as subjects of British liberal rule and modern freedom. It argues that in seeking to escape liberalism’s gendered and racialised governmentalities, Black women’s everyday self-making practices construct decolonising and feminising epistemologies of freedom. These, in turn, repeatedly interrogate the colonial logics of liberalism and Britishness. Genealogically structured, the book begins with the narratives of freedom and identity presented by Black British Caribbean women. It then analyses critical moments of crisis in British racial rule at home and abroad in which gender ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
Series
Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137449504
SKU
V9781137449504
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About Denise Noble
Denise Noble is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. She previously spent six years teaching in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, USA. She has also taught social work, media and cultural studies at several London universities.
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