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About the Author
Shatema Threadcraft is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, and the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity.
Reviews
It's been a bad decade for politics, but a great decade for political theory. Three standouts for me were Shatema Threadcraft's Intimate Justice, Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire, and Kathi Weeks's The Problem With Work. * Amia Srinivasan, The Chronicle of Higher Education *
With theoretical sophistication and admirable moral clarity, Intimate Justice reframes what corrective racial justice should entail by taking the deprivation of black women's intimate capacities as its starting point. Threadcraft makes a compelling case that the debate about racial justice has focused almost exclusively on the civic harms suffered by blacks in the public sphere, thereby overlooking the thwarting of black women's intimate capacities in the private sphere. She brilliantly spells out what a fuller account of racial justice would entail." * Juliet Hooker, Associate Professor of Government and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin *
'Establishing meaningful intimate justice is every bit as important as economic and political justice.' Shatema Threadcraft's Intimate Justice powerfully demonstrates the wisdom of that claim and the urgency of developing a theory of freedom that locates the historical and contemporary experiences of African American women and girls at its center. This is a foundational text for all political theorists." * Lawrie Balfour, author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois *
Threadcraft's Intimate Justice is remarkably confident, sophisticated, and engrossing. This fresh, ambitious work successfully brings feminist political theory together with Black feminist thought, richly exploring ways to think about and achieve justice within the sphere of intimate relations." * Rickie Solinger, author of Reproductive Justice: What Everyone Needs to Know *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190909710
Author Shatema Threadcraft
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 272g
Dimensions(mm) 140mm * 208mm * 13mm