Beyond the Black lady : sexuality and the new African American middle class / Lisa B. Thompson.

The author explores the representation of black middle class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, drama, film, and popular culture, showing how these depictions reclaim black female agency and illustrate the difficulties black women confront in asserting sexual...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:New Black studies series.
Main Author: Thompson, Lisa B., 1965-
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009], ©2009.
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
African American women > Psychology.
African American women > Sexual behavior.
Middle class women > United States > Psychology.
Middle class women > Sexual behavior > United States.
Mass media and women > United States.
Mittelstand.
Psychologie.
Sexualverhalten.
Weibliche Schwarze.
USA.
Massenmedien.
Mass media and women.
Middle class women > Psychology.
United States.
African American women > Psychology
African American women > Sexual behavior
Mass media and women > United States
Middle class women > United States > Psychology
Middle class women > United States > Sexual behavior
Mittelstand
Sexualverhalten
Weibliche Schwarze
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Physical Description:xi, 183 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Spectacle of the respectable : Anita Hill and the problem of innocence
  • Staging Black female desire : the drama of race, class, and sexuality
  • Black ladies and Black magic women : independent film and Black sexuality
  • Narrating sexuality in contemporary African American autobiography
  • Sex, travel, and the single African American girl : Andrea Lee's Sarah Phillips.