Women Devon W. Carbado and their determination to find

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to her people

feminists have been led down the same dead-end alleys generation after generation

Women Devon W. Carbado and their determination to findA New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial identity played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects: his mother, a self described "Negress," who would not be defined by the limitations of race and gender; the mother of