Behind the mask of the strong black woman : voice and the embodiment of a costly performance

Behind the mask of the strong black woman voice and the embodiment of a costly performance

The defining quality of Black womanhood is strength, states Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant in Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman. But, she argues, the idea of strength undermines its real function: to defend and maintain a stratified social order by obscuring Black women's experiences of suf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press c2009.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Women, Black > Psychology.
Women, Black > Social conditions.
Character.
Determination (Personality trait)
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798362006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A half-told tale of black womanhood
  • More than "the historical, the monolithic me" : deconstructing strong black womanhood
  • Living the lies : embodying "good" womanhood
  • Keeping up appearances : the performance of strength
  • Lies make us sick : embodied distress among strong black women
  • Coming to voice : transcending strength
  • Epilogue : mules no more, just "levelly human" : a societal challenge.

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