This work traces the genesis and evolution of African American women's feminist discourse and intellectual enterprise from the beginning of slavery in the Unite
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful." --Washington Post Universally acclaimed, rapturously
For the last twenty-five years, Language, Discourse, Society has been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its titles range across the discipl
Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women"