Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body
- Author
- Riché Richardson
- Content
- xxv + 298 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Description
- Focuses on Mary McLeod Bethune, Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks, and Condoleezza Rice and how as political figures they nationalized black femininity and black motherhood and challenged notions of identity and power formed within patriarchal constructs of class, gender, race, and sexuality.
- Main subject
- Politics
Sociology and Social Issues - ISBN
- 9781478009917 (cloth); 9781478010975 (pap.); 9781478012504 (ebook)
- Citation
- Richardson, Riché. Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Sylvia. Accessed January 21, 2026. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1654.
- Updated
- 03-06-2021