See me naked : Black women defining pleasure during the interwar era / Tara T. Green.

"Pleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desire, deliberately sought in order to satisfy the self. Putting pleasure first is liberating. During their extraordinary lives, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Yolande DuBois, and Memphis Minnie enjoyed pleasure as they gave pleasure to both those in their live...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Green, Tara T. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	African American women > Social conditions > 20th century. African American women > Social life and customs > 20th century. African American women > Biography. African American women entertainers > Biography. African American women in popular culture > History > 20th century. Pleasure in popular culture > United States > History > 20th century. Sex in popular culture > United States > History > 20th century. African American women. African American women entertainers. African American women in popular culture. African American women > Social conditions. African American women > Social life and customs. Sex in popular culture. United States. 1900-1999 Biographies. History.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies. History.
Physical Description:	v, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction: Pleasure is all mine
Finding Yolande Du Bois's pleasure
Lena Horne and respectable pleasure
Moms Mabley and the art of pleasure
Memphis Minnie and songs of pleasure
Pleasurable resistance in Langston Hughes's Not without laughter
Conclusion: Black feminist musings from nature, the context of pleasure in 2020.