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Erotic revolutionaries : black women, sexuality, and popular culture /

Why is there no "pro-sex" contigency in black feminist scholarship? Why do so few African-American scholars expound on issues celebrating female sexual pleasure? Perhaps the answers to these questions reside within a discursive matrix of sexual repression commonly referred to as the politi...

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Main Author: Lee, Shayne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, a member of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, [2010]
Subjects:
African American women in popular culture.
African American women > Psychology.
Sex in popular culture.
African American women > Race identity.
Self-perception in women > United States.
Women in popular culture > United States.
African American women > Ethnic identity.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780761852292
0761852298
1282713531
9781282713536
9786612713538
6612713534
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Erotic revolutionaries of black sexuality
  • Flipping the sexual script : the social construction of sexuality
  • Sultry drive of pop and soul : Janet, BeyoncĂ©, and Jill
  • Confessions of a video vixen
  • Zane's urban erotica
  • Serena and the power chicks
  • Vagina power : Alexyss Tylor and the sexperts
  • Black clergywoman and sexual discourse
  • Erotic queens of comedy
  • Tyra Banks : erotic talk show host
  • Epilogue: Surfing the third wave.

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