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Further Reading
Brownmiller, Susan,Femininity, Ballantine Books, 1985.
Brownmiller’s book offers a historical look at
the features that have been used to define fem-
ininity. In accessible language, she articulates
how women have responded to various defini-
tions of beauty across time.
Collins, Lisa Gail, and Margo Natalie Crawford, eds.,
New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, Rutgers Uni-
versity Press, 2006.
The essays in this well-illustrated collection
cover the important figures of the black arts
movement and provide additional information
concerning the political and artistic concerns of
the generation.
Harper, Michael, and Anthony Walton, eds.,Every Shut
Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African
Americans since 1945, Little, Brown, 1994.
This volume includes chapters on thirty-five
important contemporary African American
poets, including Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn
Brooks, Amiri Baraka, and Robert Hayden.
hooks, bell,Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Poli-
tics, South End Press, 2000.
An important African American critic and
essayist, hooks examines the history of gender
oppression in patriarchal society and follows
the development of the women’s movement.homage to my hips