Ne suis-je pas une femme ?

Femmes noires et féminisme

304 pages

français language

Published Sept. 23, 2015 by Cambourakis.

ISBN:
9782366241624

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5 stars (1 review)

"Ne suis-je pas une femme ?", telle est la question que Sojourner Truth, ancienne esclave, abolitionniste noire des Etats-Unis, posa en 1851 lors d'un discours célèbre, interpellant féministes et abolitionnistes sur les diverses oppressions subies par les femmes noires : oppressions de classe, de race, de sexe. Héritière de ce geste, bell hooks décrit dans ce livre devenu un classique les processus de marginalisation des femmes noires et met en critique les féminismes blancs et leur difficulté à prendre en compte les oppressions croisées.

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How multiple axes of oppression work together to marginalize black women

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No one group is safe from bell hooks' substantial critique in her in-depth exploration of the oppression black women have to struggle against in the United States.

This book contains several essays, which deal with black women's struggle from the time of slavery to the time of publishing (1981). In them the author shows how time and again black women have been marginalized or excluded not only from patriarchal mainstream society, but also from white feminism and black liberation movements.

Nearly a decade before the term intersectionality was coined, bell hooks describes how the multiple axes of oppression black women have been struggling against work in tandem to silence, exclude, and marginalize groups of people; how liberation movements are split along lines of gender and race and ultimately loose their radicalness and strength while granting some of its leaders entry to the white patriarchal hierarchy.

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