Received an honorable mention for the National Women's Studies Association's Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, 2010. “[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.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education "In refreshingly clear prose, Lisa B. Thompson renders ... Read morea 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 Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South "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 Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings Show Less