Vivian M May

Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist

A Critical Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

She concludes that in using a border-crossing, intersectional approach, Cooper successfully argues for theorizing from experience, develops inclusive methods of liberation, and crafts a vision of a fundamentally egalitarian social imaginary.

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In this book, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 164mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956437
• ISBN-10: 0415956439
• Artikelnr.: 21068999

Autorenporträt

Authored by May, Vivian M.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'A Woman of Rare Courage and Conviction' 1. 'A Little More
than Ordinary Interest in the Underprivileged': Cooper's Lifelong
Commitment to Liberation 2. 'Life Must be Something more than Dilettante
Speculation': Cooper's Multidimensional Praxis 3. 'If you Object to
Imaginary Lines - Don't Draw them!': Cooper's Border-crossing Methods 4.
'Failing at the Most Essential Provision of the Revolutionary Ideal':
Lessons from France and Haiti's Transatlantic Struggle over Abolition and
Égalité 5. Mapping Sites of Power: Cooper's Redefinition of 'the
Philosophic Mind' 6. Tracing Resistant Legacies, Rethinking Intellectual
Genealogies: Reflections on Cooper's Black Feminist Theorizing