How Long to Read Domestic Contradictions

How Long Does it Take to Read Domestic Contradictions?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 20 minutes to read Domestic Contradictions by Priya Kandaswamy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Domestic Contradictions, Priya Kandaswamy analyzes how race, class, gender, and sexuality shaped welfare practices in the United States alongside the conflicting demands that this system imposed upon Black women. She turns to an often-neglected moment in welfare history, the advent of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction, and highlights important parallels with welfare reform in the late twentieth century. Kandaswamy demonstrates continuity between the figures of the “vagrant” and “welfare queen” in these time periods, both of which targeted Black women. These constructs upheld gendered constructions of domesticity while defining Black women's citizenship in terms of an obligation to work rather than a right to public resources. Pushing back against this history, Kandaswamy illustrates how the Black female body came to represent a series of interconnected dangers—to white citizenship, heteropatriarchy, and capitalist ideals of productivity —and how a desire to curb these threats drove state policy. In challenging dominant feminist historiographies, Kandaswamy builds on Black feminist and queer of color critiques to situate the gendered afterlife of slavery as central to the historical development of the welfare state.

How long is Domestic Contradictions?

Domestic Contradictions by Priya Kandaswamy is 140 pages long, and a total of 35,000 words.

This makes it 47% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Domestic Contradictions Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 11 minutes to read Domestic Contradictions aloud.

What Reading Level is Domestic Contradictions?

Domestic Contradictions is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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