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In Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Michele Wallace blasts the masculinist bias of 1960s Black politics, showing how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power. She describes the ways in which traditional, male-identified myths of Black womanhood block the development of a separate female subjectivity. With the original publication of this book, she aroused protest from intellectual and political leaders touching off a debate which continues to resonate through current feminist and black theory.
“Wonderful … the most original discussion I’ve read in years.” …Susan Brownmiller
” Courageous … outspoken … clear-eyed.” — Publishers Weekly
Michele Wallace, who completed her PhD in Cinema Studies at New York University in 1999, is Professor of English at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her Invisibility Blues is also available from Verso.
April 1999
256 pages
Paper
1 85984 296 8
US$15 / £12 / CAN$21
