The fall of the family
Reading family rejection in Frances Beal's 'Double Jeopardy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cinnamon Williams (0009-0004-5264-186X, University of Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 581-596 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14647001251330623 |
| OpenAlex | W4409901643 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Historically, it has been difficult for Black feminists to part with the family. The unit is often imagined as the primary configuration for resisting state violence, reproducing Black life, and crafting radical politics. Less acknowledged is a strand of Black feminism that marks the family as a structural impediment to Black women's political, social, and erotic freedoms. This article engages the family question through a reading of Frances Beal's 1970 'Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female.' While Beal's theorisation of double jeopardy has primarily been read as calling attention to the 'double burden of race and gender,' I read it here as a theorisation of the violence inflicted on Black women in both the world of waged work and the so-called private sphere of family life
Double jeopardy · Feminism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Race, History, and American Society
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |