{"id":34812,"date":"2013-11-21T00:35:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34812"},"modified":"2013-11-21T00:36:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:36:01","slug":"the-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34812","title":{"rendered":"The Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Women<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
\n1996
\n160 pages
\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780374525293; ISBN10: 0374525293<\/p>\n

Hilton Als<\/a><\/strong>, Staff Writer
\nThe New Yorker<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A <\/em>New York Times Notable Book<\/em><\/p>\n

Daring and fiercely original, The Women<\/em> 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 Malcolm X<\/a>, whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son’s misogyny and racism; brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean<\/a>, who rarely identified with other blacks or women, but deeply empathized with white gay men; and the late Owen Dodson<\/a>, a poet and dramatist who was female-identified and who played an important role in the author’s own social and intellectual formation.<\/p>\n

Hilton Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to his inimitable scrutiny with relentless humor and sympathy. The results are exhilarating. The Women<\/em> is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form of all its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Women Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1996 160 pages 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780374525293; ISBN10: 0374525293 Hilton Als, Staff Writer The New Yorker A 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,25],"tags":[16428,16429,16430],"class_list":["post-34812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-women","tag-dorothy-dean","tag-farrar-straus-and-giroux","tag-hilton-als"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}