Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality Author(s): Jennifer C. Nash Source: Meridians, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2011), pp. 1-24 Published by: Indiana University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/meridians.11.2.1 . Accessed: 01/05/2013 07:58 By purchasing content from the publisher through the Service you agree to abide by the Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. These Terms and Conditions of Use provide, in part, that this Service is intended to enable your noncommercial use of the content. For other uses, please contact the publisher of the journal. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=iupress. Each copy of any part of the content transmitted through this Service must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. For more information regarding this Service, please contact
[email protected]. Indiana University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Meridians. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 71.163.64.163 on Wed, 1 May 2013 07:58:59 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Jennifer C. Nash Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality Abstract This article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second- wave feminism. By reading love-politics as both a practice of the self and a nonidentitarian strategy for constructing political communities, I argue that black feminism’s love-politics suggests a way of doing politics that transcends the pitfalls of identity politics, particularly intersectionality.