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agency
Andrea Lee
Anita Hill
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autobiography
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film
gender
Jill Nelson
Judith Alexa Jackson
Julie Dash
Kasi Lemmons
literature
Lorene Cary
P.J. Gibson
propriety
public
theory
women's studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780252034268
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jul 2009
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book, Lisa B. Thompson 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 agency in the public sphere. Thompson broadens the discourse around black female sexuality by offering an alternate reading of the overly determined racial and sexual script that casts the middle class "black lady" as the bastion of African American propriety. Drawing on the work of black feminist theorists, she examines symptomatic autobiographies, novels, plays, and key episodes in contemporary American popular culture, including works by Anita Hill, Judith Alexa Jackson, P. J. Gibson, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Jill Nelson, Lorene Cary, and Andrea Lee.
Lisa B. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the play Single Black Female.
