Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships

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In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships, Shirley A. Hill applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book will be useful to students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families ans Relationships, Hill challenges long-standing models, research, and assumptions about dimensions of Black sexuality....It provides insightful linkages between historic systemic and individual-level choices among Black women and men (and the larger society) that have resulted in contemporary challenges....Hill's attempt is commendable and several chapters...are particularly robust in the use of postmodern thought to render new ideas....Scholars, advanced undergraduate, and graduate students in gender studies as well as persons who study race, inequality, social stratification, and social problems could benefit from this book....The book succeeds in showing the benefits of expanding current theories used to study race, class, and gender issues and the Black experience. * The Journal Of Contemporary Social Services *
Recommended. All levels/libraries. * Choice Reviews *

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Shirley A. Hill is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas whose work focuses on social inequality, families, and health care issues. She is the author of Managing Sickle Cell Disease in Low-Income Families (Temple, 1994) and African American Children: Socialization and Development in Families (Sage, 1999).