- 199 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
About this book
Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal sicknesses in connection to race and gender.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Eating Salt: Black Women’s Health and the Politics of Difference in Medicine
- 1 The Black Girl’s Burden: Eugenics, Genomics and Genocide in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling
- 2 The Unbearable Burden of Culture: Sexual Violence, Women’s Power and Cultural Ethics in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death
- 3 Organ Donation, Mythic Medicine and Madness in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring
- 4 “I Mean to Survive”: Feminist Disability Theory and Womanist Survival Ethics in Octavia Butler’s Parables
- Conclusion Blood, Salt and Tears: Theorizing Difference in the Black Feminist Speculative Tradition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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