What'S Love Got To Do With It?: Understanding And Healing The Rift Between Black Men And Women

by Donna L. Franklin

The author of Ensuring Inequality focuses on the painful subject of gender relations in black America, taking a hard look at domestic violence, divorce rates, and damaging gender stereotypes on both sides of the Mars/Venus divide.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published September 6, 2000

Reviews

[Hassan · Rating 5 out of 5]

"There is a schism which exists between black men and women, and it's really painful and frightening because we were taken together from the African continent. We lay spoon fashion, back to belly, in the filthy hatches of slave ships, and in our own and each other's excrements and urine. We stood up at the auction block together. We were sent to work before sunrise, came back after sunset together. We have been equals and we are in danger if we lose that balance because if women begin to feel, "The black woman is the strongest-," then where is the man? If the man begins to feel, "I have no place in her life," then there's no balance, and all people will have paid all of those dues for nothing." Maya Angelou on Charlie Rose 1996

[Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy read. Nicely done. An updated version of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace