Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

by Saidiya Hartman

Book Overview

Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393357627
• ISBN13: 9780393357622
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"