Black Female Sexualities /

Black Female Sexualities / / ed. by Joanne M. Braxton, Trimiko Melancon.

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Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of cou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
TeilnehmendeR:
Braxton, Joanne M.
Brown, Kimberly Juanita.
Chapman, Erin D.
Cruz, Ariane.
Duvivier, Sandra C.
Ewing, K. T.
Garvey, Johanna X. K.
Harris-Perry, Melissa.
Jones, Esther L.
Lewis, Mel Michelle.
Little, Mahaliah Ayana.
Melancon, Trimiko.
Patterson, Courtney J.
Pollard, Cherise A.
Weekley, Ayana K.
MitwirkendeR:
Braxton, Joanne M.,
Brown, Kimberly Juanita,
Chapman, Erin D.,
Cruz, Ariane,
Duvivier, Sandra C.,
Ewing, K. T.,
Garvey, Johanna X. K.,
Harris-Perry, Melissa,
Jones, Esther L.,
Lewis, Mel Michelle,
Little, Mahaliah Ayana,
Melancon, Trimiko,
Patterson, Courtney J.,
Pollard, Cherise A.,
Weekley, Ayana K.,
HerausgeberIn:
Braxton, Joanne M.,
Melancon, Trimiko,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (242 p.) :; 5 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: "Somebody Almost Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff ": Black Female Sexualities And Black Feminist Intervention
  • Part I. Sexual Embod(Y)Ment: Framing The Body
  • 1. Entering Through The Body'S Frame: Precious And The Subjective Delineations Of The Movie Poster
  • 2. Is It Just Baby F(Ph)At? Black Female Teenagers, Body Size, And Sexuality
  • 3. Corporeal Presence: Engaging The Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body In Feminist Classrooms And College Communities
  • 4. Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, And The Black Female Youth In Octavia Butler'S Fledgling
  • Part II. Disengaging The Gaze
  • 5. (Mis)Playing Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality In The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl
  • 6. Why Don'T We Love These Hoes? Black Women, Popular Culture, And The Contemporary Hoe Archetype
  • 7. What Kind Of Woman? Alberta Hunter And Expressions Of Black Female Sexuality In The Twentieth Century
  • 8. The P-Word Exchange: Representing Black Female Sexuality In Contemporary Urban Fiction
  • Part III. Resisting Erasure
  • 9. "Ou Libéré?" Sexual Abuse And Resistance In Edwidge Danticat'S Breath, Eyes, Memory
  • 10. Rape Fantasies And Other Assaults: Black Women'S Sexuality And Racial Redemption On Film
  • 11. "Embrace The Narrative Of The Whole": Complicating Black Female Sexuality In Contemporary Fiction
  • 12 Saving Me Through Erasure? Black Women, HIV/AIDS, And Respectability
  • Afterword: Being Present, Facing Forward
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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