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Black Feminism: Switching The Script On Traditional Feminist Narratives, Monee Reis
Black Feminism: Switching The Script On Traditional Feminist Narratives, Monee Reis
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MONEE REIS (Gender and Women’s Studies, Africana Studies) Black Feminism: Switching the Script on Traditional Feminist Narratives
Sponsor: Kathleen McIntyre (Gender and Women’s Studies, Honors Program)
I developed a 300-level undergraduate course aimed at exploring the history of Black feminism. This idea came to me after reading Audre Lorde’s 1984 article “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference.” Lorde detailed the various ways Black women’s contributions to feminism are underrepresented in the overarching historical narrative. Lorde’s 1980s activism and feminist scholarship ultimately influenced legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw to coin the term intersectionality in 1989. Intersectionality, the multiple ways that …
Patriarchal Dynamics In Politics: How Anne Boleyn’S Femininity Brought Her Power And Death, Rebecca Ries-Roncalli
Patriarchal Dynamics In Politics: How Anne Boleyn’S Femininity Brought Her Power And Death, Rebecca Ries-Roncalli
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