WOMEN WOMEN the New

--Visit Shop\n\n--About Us\n\n--Add to Favorite\n\n--View Feedback\n\n--Contact\n\nWOMEN WOMEN the New\n\nDescription\n\nDimensions\n15.24 x 0.94 x 22.86 cm\n\nLanguage\nEnglish\n\nPrint length\n160 pages\n\nISBN-10\n0374525293\n\nISBN-13\n978-0374525293\n\nPublication date\n18 Mar. 1998\n\nA New York Times Notable Book\nDaring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial identity played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects: his mother, a self-described \""Negress,\"" who would not be defined by the limitations of race and gender; the mother of Malcolm X, whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's misogyny and racism; brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean, who rarely identified with other blacks or women, but deeply empathized with white gaye