Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

by Saidiya Hartman

Book Overview

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393285677
• ISBN13: 9780393285673
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"