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Giving Us Something We Can Feel: Investigating the Politics of Pleasure via Literacy in the Lives of Black-American Women in the US
McKinney, Charlesia Tonita Cherea
McKinney, Charlesia Tonita Cherea
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My dissertation, “Giving Us Something We Can Feel: Investigating the Politics of Pleasure via Literacy in the Lives of Black-American Women in the US” dares to imagine a taste of liberation from oppressive systems where Black women can experience pleasure more than they experience violence. While there is research on the violence Black women historically and current endure, there is room to build on scholarship that investigates politics of pleasure via literacy in the lives of Black women. Black women’s pleasure is essential in the fight toward ending oppression. Using interviews and focus groups, my research is guided by the following questions: 1) What does it look like to be literate in one’s own pleasure? 2) How do Black women define and learn pleasure? 3) How are Black women’s individual and collective relationships to pleasure rhetorically constructed and situated? 4) How do Black women gain and embody literacy in navigating pursuits of pleasure? To analyze the data, I couple Black feminist phenomenology and grounded theory to create further knowledge toward pleasure literacy. This dissertation serves three purposes: 1) to highlight and further theorize about Black women’s individual and collective relationship to pleasure; 2) To identify the emotional and embodied nature of pleasure and; 3) To contribute to non-traditional conceptions of literacy, specifically Black female literacies.
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2022-08-31
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University of Kansas
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Women's studies, Black studies, Rhetoric, Black women's literacies, pedagogies of pleasure, pleasure literacy, politics of literacy, rhetorics of pleasure