Black British feminism
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Heidi Safia Mirza.
Contributors: Mirza, Heidi Safia, 1958-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Women, Black -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.; Blacks -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.; Feminism -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Race relations.
Description: A collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodernist themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, "black" identity and social and cultural difference, this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed since the mid 1970s. Among the topics covered are: white feminism; political activism; "mixed race" identity; class differences; cultural hybridity; autobiography; black beauty; religious fundamentalism; national belonging; lesbian identity; postcolonial space and popular culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.