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Trade Review"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." -- Noliwe Rooks * Cornell University *
"This volume provides an illuminating discourse about the meaning, metaphors, and magnitude of black female sexuality as an agent of both oppression and transformation." -- Paula J. Giddings * author of IDA: A Sword Among Lions *
Table of ContentsForeword
Melissa Harris-Perry
Introduction “somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff”: Black Female Sexualities and Black Feminist Intervention-Trimiko Melancon
Part I Sexual Embod(y)ment: Framing the Body
Chapter 1 Entering Through the Body’s Frame: Precious and the Subjective Delineations of the Movie Poster Kimberly
Juanita Brown
Chapter 2 Is It Just Baby F(Ph)at?: Black Female Teenagers, Body Size, and Sexuality
Courtney J. Patterson
Chapter 3 Corporeal Presence: Engaging the Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body in Feminist Classrooms and College Communities
Mel Michelle Lewis
Chapter 4 Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, and the Black Female Youth in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling
Esther L. Jones
Part II Disengaging the Gaze
Chapter 5 Mis(Playing) Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality in The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Ariane Cruz
Chapter 6 Why Don’t We Love These Hoes?: Black Women, Popular Culture, and the Contemporary Hoe Archetype
Mahaliah Ayana Little
Chapter 7 What Kind of Woman?: Alberta Hunter and Expressions of Black Female Sexuality in the Twentieth Century
K. T. Ewing
Chapter 8 The “P-Word” Exchange: Representing Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Urban Fiction
Cherise A. Pollard
Part III Resisting Erasure
Chapter 9 “Ou libéré?”: Sexual Abuse and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory
Sandra C. Duvivier
Chapter 10 Rape Fantasies and Other Assaults: Black Women’s Sexuality and Racial Redemption on Film
Erin D. Chapman
Chapter 11 “Embrace the Narrative of the Whole”: Complicating Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Fiction
Johanna X. K. Garvey
Chapter 12 Saving Me through Erasure?: Black Women, HIV/AIDS and Respectability
Ayana K. Weekley
Afterword: Being Present, Facing Forward
Joanne M. Braxton
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
