{"title":"A Kentucky State of Mind: bell hooks' Feminist Geography of Subjectivity","authors":"C. S. McGuffey","doi":"10.1353/sgo.2023.a904512","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This research applied a feminist geographical framework to analyze the significance of Kentucky in bell hooks' Black feminist theorization. Utilizing narrative inquiry and the constant comparative method to analyze her memoir, Bone Black, poetry collection, Appalachian Elegy, and a collection of essays called Belonging, the findings illuminate the conditions, interactions, and consequences of homemaking for the politics of location. These findings reveal the process of becoming a subject, suggest a feminist geographic approach as an alternative to more abstract understandings of margin and center, and provide a more nuanced understanding of the significance of movement and stillness in knowledge production. The article concludes by suggesting that Kentucky is central to hooks' feminist visions and theories.","PeriodicalId":45528,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Geographer","volume":"63 1","pages":"272 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Southeastern Geographer","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2023.a904512","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:This research applied a feminist geographical framework to analyze the significance of Kentucky in bell hooks' Black feminist theorization. Utilizing narrative inquiry and the constant comparative method to analyze her memoir, Bone Black, poetry collection, Appalachian Elegy, and a collection of essays called Belonging, the findings illuminate the conditions, interactions, and consequences of homemaking for the politics of location. These findings reveal the process of becoming a subject, suggest a feminist geographic approach as an alternative to more abstract understandings of margin and center, and provide a more nuanced understanding of the significance of movement and stillness in knowledge production. The article concludes by suggesting that Kentucky is central to hooks' feminist visions and theories.
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The Southeastern Geographer is a biannual publication of the Southeastern Division of Association of American Geographers. The journal has published the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists since 1961. Peer-reviewed articles and essays are published along with book reviews, organization and conference reports, and commentaries. The journal welcomes manuscripts on any geographical subject as long as it reflects sound scholarship and contains significant contributions to geographical understanding.
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