Research Catalog

Title

Gender and the abjection of Blackness / Sabine Broeck.

Author

Bröck-Sallah, Sabine, 1954-

Publication

• Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

viii, 230 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

In Gender and the Abjection of Blackness, Sabine Broeck argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient account of Black contributions, and that more than being an ethnocentric limitation or blind spot, this has represented a structural anti-Blackness in the field. Engaging with the worl of Black feminist authors Sylvia Wynter, Hortense Spillers, and Saidiya Hartman, Broeck critiques a selection of canonical white gener studies texts to make this case. The book discusses this problem at the core of gender theory as a practice which Broeck terms enslavism--the ongoing abjection of Black life which Hartman has called the afterlife of slavery. This has become manifest in the repetitive employment of the "women as slave" metaphor so central to gender theory, as well as in recent theoretical mutations of these anti-Black politics of analogy. It is the structural separation of Blackness from gender that has functioned over and again as the scaffold enabling white women's struggles for successful recognition of equality and subjectivity in the human world as we know it. This book challenges while readers to rethink their own untroubled identification with gender theory, and it provides all readers with a white feminist theorist's sophisticated theoretical and self-critical scholarly account of her own reckoning with and learning in dialogue from Black feminism's critique--back cover.

Series Statement

SUNY series in gender theory

Uniform Title

SUNY series in gender theory.

Subjects

• Blacks > Race identity
• Slavery
• Women, Black
• Feminism
• Womanism
• Racism
• Intersectionality (Sociology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.

Contents

1. Against gender: enslavism and the subjects of feminism -- 2. Abolish property: Black feminist struggles against anti-Blackness -- 3. Gender and the grammar of enslavism -- 4. Abjective returns: the slave's fungibility in white gender studies -- 5. Post gender, post human: Braidotti's Nietzschean echoes of anti-Blackness -- 6. On dispossession as a false analogy.

Call Number

Sc E 18-904

ISBN

• 9781438470399
• 1438470398
• 9781438470412 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2017037080
• 40028319804
• 40028338956

OCLC

1029795485

Author

Bröck-Sallah, Sabine, 1954- author.

Title

Gender and the abjection of Blackness / Sabine Broeck.

Publisher

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY series in gender theory

SUNY series in gender theory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40028319804

40028338956

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-904