"Raising the stigma": Black womanhood and the marked body in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces

College Literature

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1-21

  Putzi, Jennifer ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary

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EID: 70450060096     PISSN: 00933139     EISSN: 15424286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lit.2004.0024     Document Type: Review

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