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Black Beauty - 9780754671459

Un libro in lingua di Tate Shirley Anne edito da Ashgate Pub Co, 2009

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Tate (gender studies, University of Leeds, UK) tackles the thorny concept of what constitutes beauty, female black beauty in particular. Using Kantian philosophy, modern race and gender theory and several years of interviews with Black women from the "Atlantic diaspora", she develops a construct not of beauty itself but of perceptions of beauty. Tate argues that within the feminist movement there is still a tendency to see white as the norm and all other shades as aberrations. She also notes that among Black women, variations in skin tone, bodily features and, most specifically, hair, too often create a divisive atmosphere. In order to include all women in the concept of beauty, she believes that one must strive for a "Black feminist anti-racist aesthetics". The topic is a difficult one, as Tate agrees, for it is both objective and subjective, as well as affected by political and social attitudes. Her nuanced text, emphasized by quotations from the interviews, opens the door to a neglected part of gender and body scholarship. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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