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1 online resource (xvii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
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Front cover; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "A Woman of Rare Courage and Conviction"; Chapter 1. "A little more than ordinary interest in the underprivileged": Cooper's Lifelong Commitment to Liberation; Chapter 2. "Life must be something more than dilettante speculation": Cooper's Multidimensional Praxis; Chapter 3. "If you object to imaginary lines -- don't draw them!" : Cooper; s Border-Crossing Methods |
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Chapter 4. "Falling at the most essential provision of the revolutionary ideal": Lessons from France and Haiti's Transatlantic Struggle over Abolition and EgaliteChapter 5. Mapping Sites of Power: Cooper's Redefinition of "the philosophic mind"; Chapter 6. Tracing Resistant Legacies, Rethinking Intellectual Genealogies: Reflections on Cooper's Black Feminist Theorizing; Notes; References; Index; Back cover |
| Summary |
Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator, and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received. Drawing on Africana and feminist theory, May places Cooper's theorizing in its historical contexts and offers new ways to interpret the evolution of Cooper's visionary politics, subversive methodology, and defiant philosophical outlook. Rejecting notions that Cooper was an elitist duped by dominant ideologies, May contends that Cooper's ambiguity, code-switching, and irony should be und |
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Print version record |
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Feminist theory.
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Social sciences.
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social sciences.
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Feminist theory
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Social sciences
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135911560 |
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1135911568 |
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9780415956420 |
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0415956420 |
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1281076473 |
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9781281076472 |
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