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Auteur(s) : Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara
Titre(s) : Behind the mask of the strong black woman [Texte imprimé] : voice and the embodiment of a costly performance / Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Publication : Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009
Description matérielle : viii, 183 p. ; 22 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-179) and index
"Sociologist Beauboeuf-Lafontant explores the "sociocultural lore" invoked in imaging
the strong black woman. Bypassing familiar literary recreations of the oversacrificial
Mammy and the oversexed Jezebel, she attends to the "growing autobiographical and
clinical literature by Black women experiencing compulsive overeating and depression."
She foregrounds the intersection of race and gender with fresh and thought-provoking
insight as she challenges "the racialization of depression as a white illness" and
of eating problems as exclusive to the privileged. She interviews 58 black women ranging
in age from 19 to 67 about "what strength means to them." While many of her subjects
reveal the involvement of familial communities in setting "the standards of stoicism,
care, and selflessness that Black women encounter from girlhood through adulthood,
at home and at work, among intimates and strangers," one-third were "strength-critical
women," proponents of "self-care rather than self-neglect." This book may be too academic
in tone to appeal to the popular reader, but one hopes her message will trickle out.
(Sept.)" --Publishers Weekly Reviews
Sujet(s) : Noires -- Psychologie
Courage
Caractère
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781592136674 (alk. paper). - ISBN 1592136672 (alk. paper). - ISBN 9781592136681
(pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1592136680 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
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