Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
ISBN-10
1859842968
ISBN-13
9781859842966
Series
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
Category
Psychology
Pages
274
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Verso
Author
Michele Wallace

Description

Originally published in 1978, this book caused a storm of controversy as Michele Wallace blasted the masculinist bias of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power and the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood. In 1990 the author added a new introduction examining the debate the book had sparked between intellectuals and political leaders; an extensive bibliography of contemporary black feminist studies was also added. Black Macho raised issues and arguments that framed the terms of current feminist and black theory and continues to be relevant today.

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