Female Subjects in Black and White

Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism

Author: Elizabeth Abel
Secondary Author: Barbara Christian
ISBN: 9780520206304

This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities--as well as the transformative possibilities--between white feminist and African American cultural formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Intersectionality)