Black French women and the struggle for equality, 1848-2016 /edited and with an introduction by Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher ; foreword by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - France overseas : studies in empire and decolonization .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Marianne is also Black / Originaire women and political life in Senegal's four communes / Christiane Taubira, a Black woman in politics in French Guiana and in France / A passion for justice : the role of women in the Aliker case / French Caribbean feminism in the post-departmentalization era / The end of silence : on the revival of afrofeminism in contemporary France / Gerty Archimede and the struggle for decolonial citizenship in the French Antilles, 1946-51 / A Black woman's life in the struggle : Jean McNair in France / Am I my sister's keeper? The politics of propriety and the fight for equality in the works of French Antillean women writers, 1920s-40s / Between respectability and resistance : French Caribbean women confronted by masculine domination during the second half of the twentieth century / Media and the politics of "re-presentation" of the Black female body / Shaking the racial and gender foundations of France : the influences of "Sarah Baartmann" in the production of Frenchness / Discourse on immigration : Fatou Diome's commitment to human rights in the belly of the Atlantic / Remapping the metropolis : theorizing Black women's subjectivities in interwar Paris / Social imaginaries in tension? The women of Cameroon's battle for equal rights under French rule at the turn of the 1940s-50s / Felix Germain and Silyane Larcher -- Hilary Jones -- Stephanie Guyon -- Monique Milia-Marie-Luce -- Felix Germain -- Silyane Larcher -- Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel -- Tyler Stovall -- Jacqueline Couti -- Stephanie Mulot and Nadine Lefaucheur -- Sarah Fila-Bakabadio -- Robin Mitchell -- Joseph Dieme -- Claire Oberon Garcia -- Rose Ndengue.

"Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how Black women--in France, the French Caribbean, Réunion Island, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis--experienced and reacted to French colonialism"--



9781496210357 9781496210371


Women's rights--France.
Women, Black--Social conditions.--France
Women, Black--Legal status, laws, etc.--France.


Electronic Books.

HQ1236 / .B533 2018