Black macho and the myth of the superwoman
By: by Michele Wallace.
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: African American men; African American women; African Americans -- Psychology; Sex role -- United States; Identity (Psychology); Women -- United States -- Identity
Description: This book caused a storm of controversy as Michele Wallace blasted the masculinity bias of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power and the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood. .