Originally published in 1978, this book caused a storm of controversy as Michele Wallace blasted the masculinist bias of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power and the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood. In 1990 the author added a new introduction examining the debate the book had sparked between intellectuals and political leaders; an extensive bibliography of contemporary black feminist studies was also added. Black Macho raised issues and arguments that framed the terms of current feminist and black theory and continues to be relevant today.
- ISBN10 1859842968
- ISBN13 9781859842966
- Publish Date 17 April 1999 (first published 1 January 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 268
- Language English