Vexy Thing Material:Paperback Shange's words reveal what it

Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century

In this nervous system:  •  The sounds of a black spinning disc of a 1950s jazz LP as intimate and instructive as a parent’s voice

but first they’ll have to face the lies and obstacles they’ve worked so hard to leave behind…

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Vexy Thing Material:Paperback Shange's words reveal what itImani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifactsranging from nineteenth century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary artfrom the Enlightenment to the present. Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problempatriarchyis used