Description: This book contributes to the canon of research on philosophy of science, methodology, research methods, and public health science, using Black girls' and women's health science as a point of inquiry. Each chapter represents a decolonizing approach to philosophy of science, as ...
Brief description: Danielle Dickens, PhD is associate professor of psychology at Spelman College. Dr. Dickens uses an interdisciplinary approach and pulls together her knowledge and experience as an instructor, researcher, and mentor around the intersectional issues of race/ethnicity, gender, age, and class in higher education and the workplace. As a Black feminist social psychologist, her research focuses on the identity development and identity formation of Black women and how they navigate the world. She utilizes qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine Black women's intersectional identities, with an emphasis on their experiences in the workplace, higher education, and in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Dr. Dickens is most interested in examining how Black women engage in identity shifting as a coping strategy, and the benefits and costs of identity shifting on Black women's physical and mental health. In her second line of research, Dickens examines the social-psychological determinants of academic and career development of Black women. These projects have been funded from agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, American Psychological Foundation, and Goldman Sachs. She is a recipient of several awards, such as the 2019 American Psychological Association (APA) Division 35 Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award, the 2020 APA Division 35 Section 1 Psychology of Black Women Foremothers Mentorship Early Career Award, and the 2023 Women of Color Initiative Outstanding Faculty Impact Award.
Review Quotes:
"Jameta Nicole Barlow's Writing Blackgirls' and Women's Health and Science: Implications for Research and Praxis embodies womanist health empowerment by providing a roadmap not just to Black women's health and wellness but also to Black women's full vitality. Everyone who works with Black women and girls in their pursuit of health and wellness, whether in medical or non-medical settings, should read this book and absorb its messages. Black women, too, whether health professionals, healers, or everyday healthcare consumers, will be inspired by being 'seen' in this text. Barlow has curated and convened a virtual 'sister-circle' of Black women's health visionaries and innovators. This book belongs on every health and wellness bookshelf!" --Layli Maparyan, professor, Wellesley College; executive director, Wellesley Centers for Women; author of The Womanist Idea (2012); editor of The Womanist Reader (2006) and Womanism Rising (2024)
"Dr. Barlow and colleagues have pulled together some of the most empathetic and informed scholars, practitioners, theorists, and thinkers to deepen our understanding of Black women and girls. This book is an important contribution--allowing Black women and girls to share their lived experiences in the context of their lives." --Monica R. McLemore, University of Washington "A beautifully written, raw, and honest critical examination of the complexities that influence the health and well-being of Black girls through the lens of influential Black women scholars. Threaded throughout are theoretical frameworks that center the voices of those who understand what it means to be Black and female in our society. This book addresses all aspects of our beings, from our history to our hair. It is a must-read for anyone who states their mission is to improve the reproductive lives of Black girls." --Lucinda Canty, University of Massachusetts "This text offers compelling accounts of the many ways Black women and girls haveconstructed ways of knowing out of the margins of their lived experiences. The authorsgather the sum of their knowledge and experience about the health of Black women anddare to reimagine a narrative constructed in our own image. It is a crucial book in thegrowing library on Black women and health." --Sarita Kaya Davis, Georgia State University "Writing Blackgirls' and Women's Health Science is the transformative paradigm-shifting collection that so many of us in the field of Blackgirls and women's health have been waiting for. This is an enormously powerful book which will shake up, interrupt, and intervene in the staid discourses and research agendas that have silenced and/or minimized Blackgirls' and women's epistemologies as it intersects with health and healing practices." --Michele Berger, Case Western Reserve University "Like a warm summer rain welcomed after an arid patch of unrelenting heat, Writing Blackgirls' and Women's Health Science: Implications for Research and Praxis offers a radical, refreshing, and rare approach to the topic of Blackgirls and women's health and wellness. By centering Blackgirls and women within their rich, intersectional, and social-structural realities and strengths, this edited volume offers a bold and innovative philosophy of science grounded in Blackgirls' and Women's Philosophy of Science. As Dr. Jameta Barlow, the editor of this badass volume proclaims in her introduction: 'Black women be knowing.' This book is a joyous reclamation of science for Blackgirls and women and a must-read for anyone interested in charting a transformative path to Blackgirls and women's health, wellness, and liberation." --Lisa Bowleg, The George Washington University and the Intersectionality Training Institute