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"I can feel it more than I can say it": A qualitative exploration of Black Womanhood.

Kadeba, Myriam Tamouhan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1510063126911286

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Psychology-Counseling.
Black Womanhood has been historically defined as antithetical to the normative feminine ideals in the United States. This hegemonic femininity prescribes standards that are considered ideals in describing the archetypical feminine woman. Black women have been stereotyped as unfeminine and unattractive, and this negative and pervasive social rhetoric continue to have a long lasting adverse impact on this population. Black feminist scholars have long articulated the importance of defining Black womanhood not in relation to hegemonic femininity, but by incorporating the actual experiences of Black women. Using an interpretative phenomenological methodology and based on interviews with Black women in the United States, the current study investigated Black women’s notion of womanhood. This study uncovered ways participants self-defined, resisted negative and oppressive societal messages, and celebrated their own Black Womanhood. Participants to the study were selected using a snowball sampling method. This qualitative study sought out to advance the field of counseling psychology’s discourse on the experiences of Black women by focusing on an emic definition of Black Womanhood.
Suzette Speight, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Amber Hewitt, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Dawn Johnson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Delila Owens, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Nicole Rousseau, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Queener, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
149 p.
Counseling Psychology
Black Womanhood; Black women; self-definitions; qualitative research; emic; phenomenology

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  • Kadeba, M. T. (2017). "I can feel it more than I can say it": A qualitative exploration of Black Womanhood. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1510063126911286

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kadeba, Myriam. "I can feel it more than I can say it": A qualitative exploration of Black Womanhood. . 2017. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1510063126911286.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kadeba, Myriam. ""I can feel it more than I can say it": A qualitative exploration of Black Womanhood. ." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1510063126911286

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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