Journalist Joan Morgan isn't afraid to ask tough questions. Here she challenges a feminism that vehemently defends women's reproductive rights but ignores men's lack of reproductive choice. And she refuses to discuss the physical and emotional damage of sexism without examining the utterly foul and unloving ways women sometimes treat each other.

Forthright and controversial, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost offers a feminism committed to "keeping it real." It is that magical intersection where contrary voices meet — the juncture where "truth is no longer black and white but subtle, intriguing shades of gray."

Jane

It's a bold, cheeky, self-affirming read, and for black women in this society, there's hardly enough affirmation.

In this fresh, funky, and ferociously honest book, award-winning journalist Joan Morgan bravely probes the complex issues facing African-American women in today's world: a world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; and where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women who long for marriage that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than 40 percent of the African-American population.

intro.: dress up

the f-word

hip-hop feminist

from fly-girls to bitches and hos

strongblackwomen

strongblackwomen -n- endangeredblackmen...this is not a love story

lovenote

babymother

chickenhead envy

one last thing before I go

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