Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representation by African American Women

by Michael Bennett, Vanessa D. Dickerson, Ajuan Mance

Book Overview

Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, and representation, little has been written about black women's depictions of their own bodies. Both past and present-day American cultural discourse has attempted either to hypereroticize the black female body or make it a site of impropriety and crime.

The essays in this volume focus on how African American women, from the nineteenth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813528399
• ISBN13: 9780813528397
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"