Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic
Shatema Threadcraft
Abstract
Intimate Justice charts the long and still incomplete struggle for freedom and equality for the embodied black female subject, the struggle to use the powers and capacities of the black female body freely and equally. This struggle has been marked by infanticides, widespread and systematic sexual violence as a weapon of racial terror, coerced sterilizations, and other racially targeted techniques of population control, as well as racially biased child removal policies. It provides a number of historical examples of ways in which the black female subject has been inequitably treated, and consid ... More
Intimate Justice charts the long and still incomplete struggle for freedom and equality for the embodied black female subject, the struggle to use the powers and capacities of the black female body freely and equally. This struggle has been marked by infanticides, widespread and systematic sexual violence as a weapon of racial terror, coerced sterilizations, and other racially targeted techniques of population control, as well as racially biased child removal policies. It provides a number of historical examples of ways in which the black female subject has been inequitably treated, and considers the effects of the various efforts that have been made to redress the situation. It then considers what insights black women’s still incomplete journey, as well as the discourse the women produced in the course of this struggle, may hold for political theory. Ultimately it considers what conceptions of freedom and corrective justice are necessary for the embodied black feminine subject.
Keywords:
Freedom,
Violence,
Justice,
Capabilities,
Black Female
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190251635 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190251635.001.0001 |
