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Strong And Large Black Women?: Exploring Relationships between Deviant Womanhood and Weight

Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara·2003·Gender & Society
DOI 10.1177/0891243202238981
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This article questions the societal and cultural image of Black women as strong and suggests that this seemingly affirming portrayal is derived from a discourse of enslaved women’s deviance. In highlighting connections between perceived strength and physical size among Black women, the analysis extends current feminist theory by considering the ways in which the weight many strong African American women carry is reflective of the deviant and devalued womanhood that they are expected to embody both within and outside their culture.

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  • The Superwoman concept arose in part from African American women's efforts to counter demeaning societal images of Black womanhood and to bring attention to unrecognized strengths that endured through oppression and hardship.

    “The concept of Superwoman developed partially as a result of African American women’s efforts to counteract negative societal characterizations of African American womanhood (such as “Mammy,” “Jezebel,” and “Welfare Queen”) and to highlight unsung attributes that developed and continue to exist despite oppression and adversity (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2003; Harris-Lacewell, 2001).”

    From Superwoman Schema: African American Women’s Views on Stress, Strength, and Health (2010) · cites this paper as Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2003

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Authors
Beauboeuf-Lafontant, T.
Affiliations
DePauw University
Venue
Gender & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2003-02
Volume
17
Issue
1
Pages
111-121
ISSN
  • 0891-2432 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-3977
DOI
10.1177/0891243202238981
OpenAlex
W2133708418
Cited by
157
References
2
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 8
FWCI
5.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Gender & Society (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
Keywords
Black women, strength, body size, weight, enslaved women, deviance, femininity, feminist theory, African American women

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