{"product_id":"beyond-the-black-lady-sexuality-and-the-new-african-american-middle-class-9780252034268","title":"Beyond the Black Lady  Sexuality and the New","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRepresenting the sexuality of black middle class women in contemporary popular culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReceived an honorable mention for the National Women's Studies Association's Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, 2010.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[Thompson] finds that some Black women are pioneering new ways to be and to give voice to a more fully actualized, human, female persona. This new woman is long overdue.”--\u003ci\u003eDiverse: Issues in Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In refreshingly clear prose, Lisa B. Thompson renders a complex and nuanced reading of black middle-class women from both fiction and real life. This study makes an important intervention in the discourse on what has heretofore been an under-theorized subject.\"--E. Patrick Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eSweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A path-breaking, cogently argued, bold study of the ways in which black women writers and public figures have engaged, confronted, resisted, or overturned prevailing notions of black middle-class women's sexuality. This book makes a powerful contribution to debates in race studies, gender and sexuality studies, performance studies, and literary and cultural studies.\"--Valerie Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eNot Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Performing Identity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Spectacle of the Respectable: Anita Hill and the Problem of Innocence   21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Staging Black Female Desire: The Drama of Race, Class, and Sexuality   43\u003cbr\u003e 3. Black Ladies and Black Magic Women:Independent Film and Black Sexuality   72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Refashioning the Black Female Self\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Narrating Sexuality in Contemporary African American Autobiography   97\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sex, Travel, and the Single African American Girl: Andrea Lee's \u003ci\u003eSarah Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e   118\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue   137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes   141\u003cbr\u003e Index   175","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036815163735,"sku":"9780252034268","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-black-lady-sexuality-and-the-new-african-american-middle-class-9780252034268","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}