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Kamille Gentles-Peart - Romance with Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States - 9780803290808 - V9780803290808
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Romance with Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States

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Description for Romance with Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States Hardback. Using personal accounts, Romance with Voluptuousness examines the ways in which black women with heritage in the English-speaking Caribbean participate in, perpetuate, and struggle with the voluptuous beauty standard of the black Caribbean while living in the hegemony of thinness cultivated in the United States. Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Num Pages: 210 pages, 0 ilustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.

Offering a unique vantage point from which to view black women’s body image and Caribbean migration, Romance with Voluptuousness illuminates how first- and second-generation immigrant black Caribbean women engage with a thick body aesthetic while living in the United States.
 
               Using personal accounts, Romance with Voluptuousness examines the ways in which black women with heritage in the English-speaking Caribbean participate in, perpetuate, and struggle with the voluptuous beauty standard of the black Caribbean while living in the hegemony of thinness cultivated in the United States. It highlights how black Caribbean women negotiate issues of body image ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Series
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803290808
SKU
V9780803290808
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Kamille Gentles-Peart
Kamille Gentles-Peart is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Roger Williams University. She is the coeditor of Re-constructing Place and Space: Media, Culture, Discourse, and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas.  

Reviews for Romance with Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States
“This book will be attractive to courses in sociology, women and gender studies, Caribbean studies, and migration studies, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. . . . The author’s conception of ‘embodied cultural citizenship’ and the way in which she demonstrates how this works are quite convincing.”—Winnifred Brown-Glaude, associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department ... Read more

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