The Gendered Society Reader

Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Charisse Jones

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America

4, Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America . Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "white" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back. In commemoration of its twentieth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content throughout Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of Black women's lives today.

Shirin M. Rai (Author)

Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring

When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those perf

Angeliki Sifaki (Editor)

Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised

This edited volume engages with a range of geographical, political and cultural contexts to inter