This article, utilizing an exploratory methodological approach, examines to what extent historical materialist theory can explain the omission of Black senior women from discourse on sexuality in the United States.
Dr. Nicole Rousseau is a historical sociologist whose work examines how social rhetoric, media, and institutional structures shape identity, power, and lived experience.
She is the author of Black Woman’s Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction and has published extensively on Black feminist thought, historical womanist theory, and structural inequality.
Dr. Rousseau has led research initiatives, taught at the university level, and worked with organizations to translate sociological insight into program strategy and institutional change.
She is also the host of The Signal Podcast which extends her research into a public-facing exploration of narrative, media, and power.
