Race, Gender, and Sanism: Remapping Mad Feminist Genealogies.
In this essay I first elucidate how white women's literatures of madness in the early twentieth century, as well as feminist criticism, utilize racialized madness to frame the recovery and liberation of white feminist protagonists. As a counterpoint to these white literatures of madness, I draw upon...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 885 - 905 |
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University of Chicago Press
Summer2022
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