Journal ArticleSigns · March 1, 2024
This article turns attention to the contemporary Black feminist trade book, which I argue introduces a new, highly visible, and highly profitable genre: Black feminist self-help. This article thinks critically about Black feminist self-help, tracking the e ...
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Book · 2024
"Jennifer C. Nash's How We Write Now offers a conceptual framework for thinking about contemporary Black feminist writing's commitment to sitting with and at the scene of loss through beautiful writing. ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Theory · April 1, 2023
This conversation returns to Robyn Wiegman's field-defining Object Lessons, reflecting on the book's travels, resonances, and continued importance a decade after its publication. ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Theory · December 1, 2022
Dominance feminism and afropessimist theory, despite their critical appearances three decades apart, are undergirded by similar rhetorical strategies, political commitments and argumentative moves. This is the case even as afropessimism’s citational trajec ...
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Book · August 13, 2021
Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the "Black mother" has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black ... ...
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Journal ArticlePublic Culture · September 1, 2020
This paper sits with the understudied subgenre of the contemporary black maternal memoir in the Black Lives Matter era. We read Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin and Lezley McSpadden’s Tell the Tru ...
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Book · December 6, 2018
In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. ...
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Book · 2017
This book focuses on love and its relation to gender, mapping out feminist and queer critical engagement with love's many meanings, paying particular attention to love's gendered and sexualized elements, and offering resources for further ... ...
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Chapter · November 9, 2016
These rich and multidisciplinary essays are written by renowned critical sexualities studies experts and rising stars in this area and grouped under four main areas: Global Assemblages of Sexuality Education Sexualities Education in Schools ... ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Theory · April 2016
This article examines the growing body of commemorative feminist work on intersectionality – the myriad journals and books that have marked intersectionality’s twentieth anniversary and celebrated the analytic’s field-defining status and cross-dis ...
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Chapter · April 1, 2016
As demonstrated in this collection, this has resulted in a feminist legal theory
which, while remaining attentive to national jurisdictional concerns, also looks
beyond these horizons to a complex terrain of multiple, intersecting political
dynamics&nbs ...
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Chapter · 2016
This volume places pornography at the heart of the 1970s American experience, exploring lesser-known forms of pornography from the decade, such as a new, vibrant gay porn genre; transsexual/female impersonator magazines; and pornography for ... ...
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Journal ArticleGLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies · October 1, 2014
“Black Anality” argues that “black” and “anal” are rendered ideologically, discursively, and representationally synonymous, and that black female flesh becomes the material space on which this convergence occurs. Drawing on an archive of online, wi ...
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Journal ArticleMeridians · March 1, 2013
AbstractThis article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second-wave feminism. By reading love-politics as both a practice of the self and a nonidentitarian strategy for ...
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