{"product_id":"unseen-flesh-9781478025184","title":"Unseen Flesh","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice within hostile gynecological spaces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An original and necessary work, \u003ci\u003eUnseen Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e opens an important critical window on well-being and gynecological health in Brazil, which are colored and conditioned by race\/color, class, and sexual identity. Nessette Falu’s focus on Black Brazilian lesbians is historic and significant in itself—the result of her long-term, invested, and loving encounters with people who had been silenced.” -- Jafari S. Allen, author of * There’s a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Bearing Witness to Unseen Flesh  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Virgin Who Lives within Her Erotic Worth  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Unseen Flesh: Gynecological Trauma, Emotional Power, and Intimate Sociomedical Violence  51\u003cbr\u003e Interlude One: Angela  77\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Social Clinic: Mapping the Social and Colonial World of Gynecology  79\u003cbr\u003e Interlude Two: It Doesn’t Matter  111\u003cbr\u003e 4. Are \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e Ethical Subjects? Seeing Ourselves in Shapeshifting Ethics  113\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eBem-Estar Negra\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eLésbicas Negras\u003c\/i\u003e’ Beautiful Experiments of Worth  141\u003cbr\u003e Notes  169\u003cbr\u003e References  179\u003cbr\u003e Index  195","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409017545047,"sku":"9781478025184","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025184.jpg?v=1730505111","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unseen-flesh-9781478025184","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}