Jennifer Christine Nash is the

Jean Fox O'Barr Jean Fox O'Barr (born 1942) is an American feminist teacher, scholar, and administrator whose pioneering work helped establish women’s studies as a program of academic study and support for women in higher education. Biography O'Barr received he ...

Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at

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. Her research interests include Black feminist theory,

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, Black sexual politics and

intersectionality Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of adva ...

.Faculty profile at duke.edu
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Education

Nash earned her PhD in African American Studies at

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and her JD at

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Career

Nash is critical of approaches to

that demand either uncritical, unqualified support or outright rejection, calling instead for a critical engagement with the discursive formations produced under the heading of intersectionality. In particular, Nash has identified and problematized an emerging posture of territoriality and defensiveness characterizing some intersectionality discourses. This territorial posture objects to a critical regime created by and for Black women being "appropriated" for the struggles of other marginalized groups. Professor Nash sees this posture as a reiteration of a regime of territoriality, which threatens to make intersectionality

into property to be defended and guarded despite black feminism's longstanding anticaptivity orientation, and the tradition's deep critiques of how logics of property enshrine boundaries and ensure that value is communicated exclusively through ownership.''Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality''.
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, 2018. p. 131.

Selected publications

* ''Birthing Black Mothers''.

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, 2021. * ''Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality''.

, 2018. * ''The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography''.

, 2014.

Edited publications

* ''Gender: Love''. Macmillan Reference, 2016.

References

External links

Faculty profile at duke.edu
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