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Lisa B. Thompson - Beyond the Black Lady - 9780252034268 - V9780252034268
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Beyond the Black Lady

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Description for Beyond the Black Lady Hardback. Representing the sexuality of black middle class women in contemporary popular culture Series: The New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
In this book, Lisa B. Thompson explores the representation of black middle-class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, drama, film, and popular culture, showing how these depictions reclaim black female agency and illustrate the difficulties black women confront in asserting sexual agency in the public sphere. Thompson broadens the discourse around black female sexuality by offering an alternate reading of the overly determined racial and sexual script that casts the middle class "black lady" as the bastion of African American propriety. Drawing on the work of black feminist theorists, she examines symptomatic autobiographies, novels, plays, and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
The New Black Studies Series
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252034268
SKU
V9780252034268
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About Lisa B. Thompson
Lisa B. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the play Single Black Female.

Reviews for Beyond the Black Lady
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 more

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