Skin deep, spirit strong : the Black female body in American culture / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, editor

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Object Details

Author
Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly 1962-
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
2002
C2002
Call number
E185.625 .S55 2002X
Type
Books
Physical description
xiv, 350 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Place
United States
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
African Americans in popular culture
Women in popular culture
African American women--Race identity
African American women--Social conditions
Gender identity
Human body in literature
Human figure in art
Racism in popular culture
Popular culture
Race relations
Record ID
siris_sil_719025
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0