Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches

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A landmark contribution to the field of Black feminist studies, this book brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in global Black feminist theories.

Featuring groundbreaking new work alongside canonical essays from key thinkers, this book adopts a truly global approach to its subject. In doing so, it looks beyond North America to showcase a diverse range of continents and perspectives. Moving beyond standard academic essays, it also includes vital statements, interviews, manifestoes, creative essays which carry Black feminist thought.

The book is broken up into five carefully curated sections:
- Black Feminist Classic Texts and Assertions
- Statements and Manifestos
- Cultures and Aesthetics
- Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
- Black Feminist Futures

Timely and important, this is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Black studies, women & gender studies and Black feminist studies, as well as more generally to American studies, African studies, Caribbean studies and African diaspora studies.

Author Bio

Angelique V. Nixon is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Carole Boyce Davies is Professor of Africana Studies ad Literatures in English at Cornell University, USA.

Christen A. Smith is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at the Unviersity of Texas at Austin, USA.

Janell Hobson is a Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Albany, State University of New York, USA.

Mshai Mwangola is an Adjunct Faculty member at the African Leadership Centre, Kenya.