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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 countless public discourses,
black women's voices have been largely marginalized in these
discussions. In this groundbreaking collection, feminist scholars
from across the academy come together to correct this
omission--illuminating black female sexual desires marked by agency
and empowerment, as well as pleasure and pain, to reveal the ways
black women regulate their sexual lives.
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 countless public discourses,
black women's voices have been largely marginalized in these
discussions. In this groundbreaking collection, feminist scholars
from across the academy come together to correct this
omission--illuminating black female sexual desires marked by agency
and empowerment, as well as pleasure and pain, to reveal the ways
black women regulate their sexual lives.
"Unbought and Unbossed" critically examines the ways black women
writers in the 1970s and early 1980s deploy black female characters
that transgress racial, gender, and especially sexual boundaries.
Trimiko Melancon analyzes literary and cultural texts, including
Toni Morrison's "Sula" and Gloria Naylor's "The Women of Brewster
Place," in the socio-cultural and historical moments of their
production. She shows how representations of black women in the
American literary and cultural imagination diverge from stereotypes
and constructions of "whiteness," as well as constructions of
female identity imposed by black nationalism.
"Unbought and Unbossed" critically examines the ways black women
writers in the 1970s and early 1980s deploy black female characters
that transgress racial, gender, and especially sexual boundaries.
Trimiko Melancon analyzes literary and cultural texts, including
Toni Morrison's "Sula" and Gloria Naylor's "The Women of Brewster
Place," in the socio-cultural and historical moments of their
production. She shows how representations of black women in the
American literary and cultural imagination diverge from stereotypes
and constructions of "whiteness," as well as constructions of
female identity imposed by black nationalism.
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