Seeking Emancipation from Gender Regulation: Reflections on Home space for a Black Woman Academic/ Single Mother

Using the work of Judith Butler on gender regulation, Black Feminist Thought (BFT), and autobiographic storytelling, this piece illustrates how essentialist notions of gender, and discourses related to gender create conflict in shaping identity construction for a Black woman academic and single moth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lisa William-­White
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hipatia Press 2012-06-01
Series:Qualitative Research in Education
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4471/qre.2012.01