I, Too, Am a Woman: an Emancipatory Text on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Author

Michelle M. Allen, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Term of Award

Spring 2018

Degree Name

Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)

Document Type and Release Option

Dissertation (open access)

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Department

Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading

Committee Chair

Sabrina Ross

Committee Member 1

Ming Fang He

Committee Member 2

Daniel Chapman

Committee Member 3

Consuela Ward

Committee Member 3 Email

cward@yahoo.com

Abstract

This inquiry builds upon Black Feminism and Critical Race Feminist frameworks by exploring the juxtaposition between Black Women and Queer Black Women. It is also an exploration of the similarities between Queer Black Women and Black Women and how they interact with femininity and masculinity, patriarchy, and heteronormativity. Claiming digital space through podcasting, it honors the power of counter narratives by employing autoethnographical story telling. It examines the multivalent ways in which critical geographies, safe spaces, and homeplaces nurture or alienate Black Women on the basis of sexual orientation, gender performance, race, and social class. Employing tenets of Black Feminist Thought, Critical Race Feminism, Black Queer Studies, and Black Cultural Studies this work reveals that the gap between margins of Queer Black Womanhood and Black Womanhood is a critical geography ripe with the fertile soil necessary to nourish a reimagined Black Feminist Agenda that is complex, progressive, and inclusive.

OCLC Number

1182809406

Recommended Citation

Allen, Michelle M., "I, Too, Am a Woman: an Emancipatory Text on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1764.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1764

Research Data and Supplementary Material

Yes