Title: Black women, cultural images and social policy
First published: 2009
Description: "Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hierarchies. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), she analyzes the values and ideologies ensconced in the various images of black womanhood and their impact on policy formation. This book provides exceptional insight into the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women."--Jacket.
Subjects: African American women, Social conditions, African American women in popular culture, Government policy, Women, united states, social conditions, Women in popular culture, African americans, politics and government, Noires américaines, Conditions sociales, Noires américaines dans la culture populaire, Politique gouvernementale, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Women's Studies
LC classification: E185.86 .J673 2009