Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Black Womanhood has been historically defined as antithetical to the normative feminine ideals in the United States.This hegemonic femininity prescribes standards that are considered ideals in describing the archetypical feminine woman.Black women have been stereotyped as unfeminine and unattractive, and this negative and pervasive social rhetoric continue to have a long lasting adverse impact on this population.Black feminist scholars have long articulated the importance of defining Black womanhood not in relation to hegemonic femininity, but by incorporating the actual experiences of Black women.Using an interpretative phenomenological methodology and based on interviews with Black women in the United States, the current study investigated Black women's notion of womanhood.This study uncovered ways participants self-defined, resisted negative and oppressive societal messages, and celebrated their own Black Womanhood.Participants to the study were selected using a snowball sampling method.This qualitative study sought out to advance the field of counseling psychology's discourse on the experiences of Black women by focusing on an emic definition of Black Womanhood.village, which is worth acknowledging.My California people (Mohamed, Christel, April, Jennifer), thank you for the laughs and for believing in me.To my Arkansas village (Amanda, Franklin, Belinda Angeline), you never doubted that I could get here, and I thank you for inspiring me.Wunam
Author: Kadeba, Myriam Tamouhan
Institution: University of Akron
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7010277466