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No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone

No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone

Kendrick, Keturah

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1631525352
ISBN13: 9781631525353
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: Jun 18 2019
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Through eight humorous essays, Keturah Kendrick chronicles her journey to freedom. She shares the stories of other women who have freed themselves from the narrow definition of what makes a proper woman. Spotlighting the cultural bullying that dictates women must become mothers to the expectation that one's spiritual path follow the traditions of previous generations, Kendrick imagines a world where black women make life choices that center on their needs and desires. She also examines the rising trend of women choosing to remain single and explores how such a choice is the antithesis to the trope of the sorrowful black woman who cannot find a man to grant her the prize of legal partnership. A mixture of memoir and cultural critique, No Thanks uses wit and insight to paint a picture of the twenty-first-century black woman who has unchained herself from what she is supposed to be. A black woman who has given herself permission to be whomever she wants to be.

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