| Description |
xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The body politic: black female sexuality and the nineteenth-century Euro-American imagination / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- "Some could suckle over their shoulder": male travelers, female bodies, and the gendering of racial ideology, 1500-1770 / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Gender, race, and nation: the comparative anatomy of "Hottentot" women in Europe, 1815-17 / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Economies of the flesh: representing the black female body in art / Lisa Collins -- Faith Ringgold's Slave rape series / Lisa E. Farrington -- The black look and "the spectacle of whitefolks": wildness in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Rachel Adams -- Naked, neutered, or noble: the black female body in America and the problem of photographic history / Carla Williams -- g "The prettiest specimen of boyhood": cross-gender and racial disguise in Pauline E. Hopkin's Winona / Siobhan B. Somerville -- "Coming out blackened and whole": fragmentation and regeneration in Audre Lorde's Zami and The cancer journals / Elizabeth Alexander -- What (n)ever happened to Aunt Jemima: eating disorders, fetal rights, and black female appetite in contemporary American culture / Doris Witt -- Mastering the female pelvis: race and the tools of reproduction / Terri Kapsalis -- Black (w)holes and the geometry of black female sexuality / Evelynn Hammonds -- Directing the gaze: an inside look at making Naked acts / Bridgett Davis. |
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African Americans in popular culture.
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African Americans in popular culture. |
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Women in popular culture -- United States.
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Women in popular culture. |
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United States. |
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African American women -- Race identity.
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African American women -- Race identity. |
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African American women. |
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African American women -- Social conditions.
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African American women -- Social conditions. |
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Gender identity -- United States.
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Gender identity. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Human figure in art.
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Human figure in art. |
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Racism in popular culture -- United States.
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Racism in popular culture. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture. |
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Gender identity. |
| Added Author |
Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-
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| ISBN |
0472067079 paperback alkaline paper |
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0472097075 acid-free paper |
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