Birthing Black Mothers
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Pages: 264
Illustrations: 9 illustrations
Release Date: August 20, 2021
Published: August 2021
Author: Jennifer C. Nash
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African American Studies and Black Diaspora, Gender and Sexuality > Feminism and Women’s Studies, American Studies
African American Studies and Black Diaspora, Gender and Sexuality > Feminism and Women’s Studies, American Studies
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Jennifer C. Nash is Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University and author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography and Black Feminism Reimagined, both also published by Duke University Press.
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Afterlives of Malaysia Goodson, or Black Mothering in Crisis 1
1. Black Gold: Remaking Black Breasts in an Era of Crisis 31
2. In the Room: Birthwork by Women of Color in a State of Emergency 69
3. Black Maternal Aesthetics: The Making of a Noncrisis Style 103
4. Writing Black Motherhood: Black Maternal Memoirs and Economies of Grief 133
Conclusion. The Afterlives of Jazmine Headley 173
Coda. "All Mothers Were Summoned when George Floyd Called Out for His Mama" 179
Notes 187
Bibliography 209
Index 235
Introduction. The Afterlives of Malaysia Goodson, or Black Mothering in Crisis 1
1. Black Gold: Remaking Black Breasts in an Era of Crisis 31
2. In the Room: Birthwork by Women of Color in a State of Emergency 69
3. Black Maternal Aesthetics: The Making of a Noncrisis Style 103
4. Writing Black Motherhood: Black Maternal Memoirs and Economies of Grief 133
Conclusion. The Afterlives of Jazmine Headley 173
Coda. "All Mothers Were Summoned when George Floyd Called Out for His Mama" 179
Notes 187
Bibliography 209
Index 235
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Back to TopPaper ISBN: 978-1-4780-1442-3 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4780-1350-1 / eISBN: 978-1-4780-2172-8 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021728
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