Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest

This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphas

Noliwe M. Rooks's Ladies' Pages sheds light on the most influential African American women's magazines--Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion, Half-Centur

This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally r

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of histor