{"product_id":"black-female-sexualities-hardback-9780813571744","title":"Black Female Sexualities (Hardback) 9780813571744","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack Female Sexualities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTrimiko Melancon (Edited by), Joanne M. Braxton (Edited by), Melissa Harris-Perry (Foreword by), Trimiko Melancon (Contributions by), Kimberly Juanita Brown (Contributions by), Courtney J. Patterson (Contributions by), Mel Michelle Lewis (Contributions by), Esther L. Jones (Contributions by), Ariane Cruz (Contributions by), Mahaliah Ayana Little (Contributions by), K. T. Ewing (Contributions by), Cherise A. Pollard (Contributions by), Sandra C. Duvivier (Contributions by), Erin D. Chapman (Contributions by), Johanna X. K. Garvey (Contributions by), Ayana K. Weekley (Contributions by), Joanne M. Braxton (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813571744\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 January 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 5 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This is a rich, multifaceted volume that leaves few if any stones unturned in exploring the themes of sex, sexuality, and feminism in relation to Black women.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Noliwe Rooks (Cornell University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This volume provides an illuminating discourse about the meaning, metaphors, and magnitude of black female sexuality as an agent of both oppression and transformation.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Paula J. Giddings (author of IDA: A Sword Among Lions)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWestern 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. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe twelve original essays in \u003ci\u003eBlack Female Sexualities\u003c\/i\u003e reveal the diverse ways black women perceive, experience, and represent sexuality. The contributors highlight the range of tactics that black women use to express their sexual desires and identities. Yet they do not shy away from exploring the complex ways in which black women negotiate the more traumatic aspects of sexuality and grapple with the legacy of negative stereotypes. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBlack Female Sexualities\u003c\/i\u003e takes not only an interdisciplinary approach-drawing from critical race theory, sociology, and performance studies-but also an intergenerational one, in conversation with the foremothers of black feminist studies. In addition, it explores a diverse archive of representations, covering everything from blues to hip-hop, from \u003ci\u003eCrash \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003ePrecious\u003c\/i\u003e, from Sister Souljah to Edwidge Danticat. Revealing that black female sexuality is anything but a black-and-white issue, this collection demonstrates how to appreciate a whole spectrum of subjectivities, experiences, and desires.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa Harris-Perry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction    “somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff”: Black Female Sexualities and Black Feminist Intervention-Trimiko Melancon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I Sexual Embod(y)ment: Framing the Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1        Entering Through the Body’s Frame: Precious and the Subjective Delineations of the Movie Poster Kimberly \u003cbr\u003eJuanita Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2        Is It Just Baby F(Ph)at?: Black Female Teenagers, Body Size, and Sexuality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCourtney J. Patterson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3        Corporeal Presence: Engaging the Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body in Feminist Classrooms and College Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMel Michelle Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4        Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, and the Black Female Youth in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEsther L. Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II         Disengaging the Gaze\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5        Mis(Playing) Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality in The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAriane Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6        Why Don’t We Love These Hoes?: Black Women, Popular Culture, and the Contemporary Hoe Archetype\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMahaliah Ayana Little\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7        What Kind of Woman?: Alberta Hunter and Expressions of Black Female Sexuality in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eK. T. Ewing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8        The “P-Word” Exchange: Representing Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Urban Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCherise A. Pollard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III        Resisting Erasure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9        “Ou libÉrÉ?”: Sexual Abuse and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSandra C. Duvivier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10      Rape Fantasies and Other Assaults: Black Women’s Sexuality and Racial Redemption on Film\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErin D. Chapman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11      “Embrace the Narrative of the Whole”: Complicating Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohanna X. K. Garvey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12      Saving Me through Erasure?: Black Women, HIV\/AIDS and Respectability\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAyana K. Weekley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Being Present, Facing Forward\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoanne M. 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