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Jennifer Christine Nash

Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies

Scholarly Works - Books


How We Write Now Living with Black Feminist Theory

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. ... Cite

Birthing Black Mothers

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 ... ... Cite

Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality

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. ... Cite

Gender Love

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 ... ... Cite

The Black Body in Ecstasy Reading Race, Reading Pornography

Book · March 31, 2014 In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. ... Cite