Foster, Frances Smith, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and Stanlie M. James, eds. Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women’s Studies (New York: Feminist Press at City University of New York, 2009), $18.36, 400 pp. ISBN: 978-1-55861-611-0 (paper).

Still Brave is an anthology that provides a nuanced genealogical perspective on the state of Black Women’s Studies since the publication of Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith’s groundbreaking text But Some of Us Are Brave. This chapter aims to discuss the reader to a time when Black female activists and scholars were no longer willing to accept an absence of critical attention to Black women’s lives as was reflected in scholarship, teaching, and activism at the time. It focuses on the inseparable nature of identity for Black women in the pursuit of naming and reclaiming their “Body and Soul.” Paula Giddings and Ann duCille argue that Black women who are willing to challenge Black male sexism are too often accused of putting their feminist agenda before “their black family”. Still Brave is a phenomenal study of the development and direction of Black Women’s Studies.