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Stoneley, Peter. "Sentimental Emasculations: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Beauty." Nineteenth-Century Literature 54, no. 1 (June 1, 1999): 53–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2902997.
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This essay reassesses the notion of passionlessness in relation to debates on race and women's fiction. In nineteenth-century writing by white men and women, the primitive other-animal, black, or Indian-becomes the touchstone of intact maleness in a smothering and emasculatory culture. To write about blackness is to write about desire, but it is also to avoid desire altogether: the black figure represents both sexuality and childish innocence. There is the same contradiction as that between "dumb beasts" and "the Beast," between the helpless and the wicked. But in the implicitly emasculatory scenarios of women's writing, this essay detects a rejection of female as much as of male desire. Women's novels both facilitate and impede a consuming gaze. In repeated episodes, the black male body is exposed and punished, celebrated and lamented, in the same moment. Blackness threatens to call forth or desublimate white desire, and white writers move between the sexual allure of blackness and the need to reaffirm the superiority of white discipline. The emasculatory scenario serves as another opportunity to assert a Christian, maternal love, even if, to the other readers, this can seem an unconvincing "cover story" for the texts' secret "black" desire.
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Pinto, Samantha. "Objects of Narrative Desire: An Unnatural History of Fossil Collection and Black Women's Sexuality." Journal of Narrative Theory 49, no. 3 (2019): 351–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2019.0015.
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Mitchell, Rebecca N. "DEATH BECOMES HER: ON THE PROGRESSIVE POTENTIAL OF VICTORIAN MOURNING." Victorian Literature and Culture 41, no. 4 (October 25, 2013): 595–620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150313000132.
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On the occasion of her Golden Jubilee, Queen Victoria was depicted in a woodcut by William Nicholson that was to become extremely popular (Figure 1). So stout that her proportions approach those of a cube, the Queen is dressed from top to toe in her usual black mourning attire, the white of her gloved hands punctuating the otherwise nearly solid black rectangle of her body. Less than thirty years later, another simple image of a woman in black would prove to be equally iconic: the lithe, narrow column of Chanel's black dress (Figure 2). Comparing the dresses depicted in the two images – the first a visual reminder of the desexualized stolidity of Victorian fidelity, the second image an example of women's burgeoning social and sexual liberation – might lead one to conclude that the only thing they have in common is the color black. And yet, twentieth- and twenty-first-century fashion historians suggest that Victorian mourning is the direct antecedent of the sexier fashions that followed. Jill Fields writes, for example, that “the move to vamp black became possible because the growing presence of black outerwear for women in the nineteenth century due to extensive mourning rituals merged with the growing sensibility that dressing in black was fashionable” (144). Valerie Mendes is more direct: “Traditional mourning attire blazed a trail for the march of fashionable black and the little black dress” (9). These are provocative claims given that most scholarly accounts of Victorian mourning attire – whether from the perspective of literary analysis, fashion history or theory, or social history or theory – offer no indication that such progressive possibilities were inherent in widows’ weeds. Instead, those accounts focus almost exclusively on chasteness and piety, qualities required of the sorrowful widow, as the only message communicated by her attire: “Widows’ mourning clothes announced the ongoing bonds of fidelity, dependence, and grieving that were expected to tie women to their dead husbands for at least a year” (Bradbury 289). The disparity in the two accounts raises the question: how could staid, cumbersome black Victorian mourning attire lead to dresses understood to embrace sexuality and mobility?
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Ray, Ranita. "Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals." Social Problems 65, no. 4 (August 16, 2017): 456–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spx025.
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Abstract Racialized and classed “risk” narratives of sexuality in the United States construct economically marginalized young women of color as sexually precocious, potential teen mothers who are likely to end up as burdens on the state. Some scholars underline the utility of recognizing reproductive inequalities involved in constructing teen motherhood as an unequivocal social problem, and they stress the importance of exploring teen mothers’ agency in navigating dominant risk narratives. Fewer studies analyze how young women who are not pregnant or parenting produce, reproduce, and challenge dominant risk narratives about their sexuality. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork among 13 young economically marginalized black and Latina women, I demonstrate how feminist ideologies of empowerment interact with pervasive risk narratives in the everyday lives of marginalized women coming of age in the “shadow of the women’s movement.” My observations show that the young women strategically navigate circulating risk narratives about their sexuality by constructing an identity of distance characterized by feminist ideals of independence, self-respect, and self-development to distance themselves from these narratives. However, as they construct this identity of distance, they also stigmatize young mothers and police their own bodies and the bodies of their friends and sisters. I draw on women-of-color feminism to reflect on the uncomfortable relationship—evident in the process of a group of young women’s identity construction—between feminist ideologies of empowerment and bourgeois heteronormativity that marginalizes young women’s sexualities by constructing teen motherhood as inherently problematic.
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Leath, Seanna, Morgan C. Jerald, Tiani Perkins, and Martinque K. Jones. "A Qualitative Exploration of Jezebel Stereotype Endorsement and Sexual Behaviors Among Black College Women." Journal of Black Psychology 47, no. 4-5 (March 1, 2021): 244–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095798421997215.
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Researchers suggest that the Jezebel stereotype exerts a significant influence on Black women’s sexual decision making. The current qualitative study drew upon narrative data from individual, semistructured interviews with 50 Black women (ages 18-24 years) to explore how the Jezebel stereotype influenced their sexual beliefs and behaviors. Using consensual qualitative research methods, the following four themes emerged from the data: (a) how the Jezebel plays a role in their sexual exploration, (b) how the Jezebel contributes to sexual violence against Black women, (c) how the Jezebel is a hypersexual media representation of Black women’s sexuality, and (d) how the Jezebel is a negative sexual stereotype within family contexts. Our findings contextualize the enduring role of the Jezebel stereotype as a sexual script for Black women, as we found that many participants chose to adapt their clothing choices or sexual behaviors in light of their awareness and endorsement of the stereotype. The authors discuss the implications of study findings for Black women and girls’ sexual socialization and deconstructing deficit-based ideologies of Black women’s sexuality.
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Bay-Cheng, Laina Y., Noelle M. St. Vil, and Hannah G. Ginn. "Young Women’s Sexuality in Black and White: Racial Differences in Appraisals of Sexually Active Young Women." Journal of Sex Research 57, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 296–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2019.1636198.
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Maylor, Uvanney. "Passionate and pious: religious media and black women’s sexuality." Ethnic and Racial Studies 42, no. 8 (October 22, 2018): 1389–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1535129.
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Dickerson, Bette J., and Nicole Rousseau. "Ageism through Omission: The Obsolescence of Black Women’s Sexuality." Journal of African American Studies 13, no. 3 (January 30, 2009): 307–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12111-008-9084-z.
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Harris, LaShawn Denise. "“Women and Girls in Jeopardy by His False Testimony”: Charles Dancy, Urban Policing, and Black Women in New York City during the 1920s." Journal of Urban History 44, no. 3 (October 6, 2016): 457–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144216672447.
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Troubling partnerships between the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and criminal informants during the mid-1920s adversely impacted urban African American women’s daily lives. Part of multiple hierarchies of municipal corruption, undercover surveillance operations represented one of many apparatuses law enforcers employed to criminalize black women’s ordinary behavior, to reinforce Progressive era images of black female criminality and promiscuity, and to deny women of their personhood and civil rights. Black New Yorker and criminal informant Charles Dancy, identified by local black newspapers as a vicious con artist and serial rapist, figured prominently in undercover police operations. Dancy falsely identified black women as sex workers and had them arrested, and in the process sexually assaulted women. New York blacks were outraged by some NYPD members’ use of informants as well as black women’s erroneous legal confinement. Situating informant work within the context of police brutality, racial inequity, and the denial of American citizenship, New York African American race leaders, newspaper editors, and ordinary folks devised and took part in resistance strategies that contested police surveillance operations and spoke on behalf of those who were subjected to state sanctioned violence.
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Barr, Rebecca Anne. "Sentiment and Sexual Servitude: White Men of Feeling and The Woman of Colour." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.1.81.
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The Woman of Colour (1808) refuses to provide its biracial heroine with “the usual meed of virtue— a husband !” This article argues that the novel’s dismissal of the marriage plot results from its scathing critique of white men of feeling. Olivia’s rejection of marriage acts as a Romantic-era version of Black women’s “culture of dissemblance”: a deliberate cultivation of privacy and dis-avowal of reproductive sexuality that is designed to evade the threat of sexual violation in a hostile society. Rather than abolitionist allies, sentimental men are shown to be self-serving and hypocritical: deploying benevolence, moral duty, and emotion to abuse and coerce. Sentimental paternalism entails white women’s conjugal misery, as the transatlantic marriage market secures British colonial networks at the expense of women’s happiness. Olivia’s white father facilitates his daughter’s exploitation at the hands of emotionally incontinent, self-absorbed, and sexually threatening white men of feeling whose behaviour discredits the authority of imperial masculinity and forces readers to evaluate the moral and political inadequacies of white abolitionism.
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Conor, Liz. "Blood Call and ‘Natural Flutters’: Xavier Herbert’s Racialised Quartet of Heteronormativity." Cultural Studies Review 23, no. 2 (November 27, 2017): 70–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v23i2.5819.
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National belonging for Xavier Herbert was intimately tied to interracial sexuality. ‘Euraustralians’ (‘half-castes’) were for Herbert a redemptive motif that could assuage the ‘awful loneliness of the colonial born’ by which he hinted at the land claim of settler-colonials as spurious. Herbert’s exposure of the spectrum of interracial sex—from companionate marriage to casual prostitution to endemic sexual assault—in his novels Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My Country (1975) was unprecedented and potentially game-changing in the administration of Aboriginal women’s sexuality under the assimilation era. But his deeply fraught masculinity was expressed through a picaresque frontier manhood that expressed itself through this spectrum of relations with Aboriginal women. For all his radical assertions of a ‘Euraustralian’ or hybrid nation, Herbert was myopic and dismissive of the women attached to the ‘lean loins’ he hoped it would spring from. He was also vitriolic about the white women, including wives, who interfered with white men’s access to Aboriginal women’s bodies. In this article I examine how Herbert’s utopian racial destinies depended on the unexamined sexual contract of monogamy and the asymmetrical pact to which it consigned white men and white women, and the class of sexually available Indigenous women, or ‘black velvet’, it rested on in colonial scenarios of sex.
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Leap, William L. "Language/sexuality/affect." Journal of Language and Sexuality 7, no. 1 (February 22, 2018): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.00002.lea.
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Abstract The papers in this special issue examine the relationships between language, sexuality and affect. Using examples of language use from Argentine cinema, bounce music performance, a university classroom, a BDSM community, and Black women’s urban queer space, the papers show how various forms of linguistic practice allow affect to remain comfortably nested on “the cusp of semantic availability” (Williams 1977: 134), rather than being reduced to tightly defined categories or messages. The discussions of these examples also show how various forms of linguistic practice allow sexuality to unfold as a messy formation (Giffney 2009, Manalansan 2014), thereby remaining resistant to boundaries and precise definitions. The basis for these parallels between affect and sexuality are explored in these papers, as are their implications for future studies of language, affect, and sexuality.
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Hope, Jeanelle Kevina. "An Ode to Black British Girls." Race and European TV Histories 10, no. 20 (December 1, 2021): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18146/view.266.
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This article delves into Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum, examining how the cultural text builds upon Black feminist media discourse, and intimately grapples with the nuances of Black women’s sexuality while explicitly challenging misogynoir. This work illustrates how Coel is helping develop a Black British cultural aesthetic that centers Black women’s liberation, specifically from an African immigrant perspective, by using satire, all the beauty, pain, and struggles that come with #blackgirlmagic, eccentric adornments, and ‘awkward’ ostentatious characters that at times play into racist images and tropes of Black womanhood to expose the absurdity of life in an anti-Black, sexist, and xenophobic society. In sum, this article understands Coel’s work in Chewing Gum to be Black girl surrealism – the intersection of Afro-surrealism, British dark comedy, and Black feminism.
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Wilkins, Amy C. "Stigma and Status." Gender & Society 26, no. 2 (February 21, 2012): 165–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243211434613.
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In this article, I use in-depth interviews with Black college students at two predominantly white universities to investigate the coconstruction of race, gender, and sexuality, and to examine intersectional identities as a dynamic process rather than bounded identity. I focus on Black college men’s talk about interracial relationships. Existing research documents Black women’s angry reactions to interracial relationships, but for Black men, interracial relationships present both problems and opportunities. I examine how Black men use two distinct forms of interracial talk— “player” talk and “intimacy” talk—to negotiate racialized gendered stereotypes of Black men’s heterosexuality. By moving between forms of talk, Black men negotiate the identity tensions they face as Black upwardly mobile men. Player talk and intimacy talk both respond to and use racialized stereotypes, reworking the relationship between gender, race, and sexuality. In this case, disrupted racial boundaries uphold gender inequalities between men and women.
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De Araújo, Flávia Santos. "“bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored”: The Metaphysical Dilemma in Ntozake Shange, Sherley Anne Williams, and Toni Morrison." Revista Ártemis 24, no. 1 (January 12, 2018): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1807-8214.2017v24n1.37728.
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This essay is an analysis of three literary works by black women writers from the U.S.: Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Sherley Ann Williams’ novel Dessa Rose, and Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. In my analysis, I use Shange’s trope of the “methaphysical dilemma” to consider the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality in these writers’ textual representations of black women’s bodies. Writing against a historical legacy of colonialism and domination that defined black bodies as “primitive” or “unbridled” (bell hooks 1991), I argue that these works illustrate some of the artistic/literary strategies contemporary black women writers use to re-claim the power of voice/voicing as they depict black women’s subjectivities as unfinished, complex, but self-fashioned creations.
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Johnson, Adeerya. "Hella Bars: The Cultural Inclusion of Black Women’s Rap in Insecure." Open Cultural Studies 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 76–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0144.
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Abstract The musical supervision of HBO’s insecure sonically maps various representations of Black women’s connections to hip-hop music as a site of autonomy, agency, and authenticity. Importantly, the variety of Black female rappers who are featured in seasons 1–3 of insecure connects nuanced and contemporary representations of Black millennial women’s understanding of Black womanhood, sex, friendship, love, and relationships. I argue that the influence of Issa Rae’s perception and connections to hip-hop and the placement of songs in insecure supports a soundtrack that takes on a hip-hop feminist approach to Black popular culture. I explore contemporary female hip-hop artist as an emerging group of rappers who support nuanced narratives and identities of Black millennial women. Furthermore, this article highlights the connectedness of Black popular culture and hip-hop feminism as an important site of representation for Black women who use hip-hop as a signifier to culture, self-expression, and identity. I recognize the importance of insecure’s soundtrack and usage of Black women in hip-hop to underline the ways hip-hop sits at the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender for Black women’s everyday lives.
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Larasati, Ika Ayu. "Formulating Black Womanhood: A Study on Beyoncé’s Hip-Hop Song Lyrics in Beyoncé Platinum Edition Album." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 3, no. 2 (July 18, 2019): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v3i2.34267.
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This article aims at understanding the Black womanhood concept through Hip-Hop song lyrics, since song lyrics are not only a part of art but also a media to express people’s feelings, education, therapy and entertainment. This article also helps the readers to understand that sexuality portrayed in Hip-Hop song lyrics stands for something and has a function because music is related to the social background, message, function, and effect generated from the artwork.The qualitative method and interdisciplinary approach are used in conducting this article, which involves the literature, history, culture, sociology, and to enhance the understanding of multi-ethnic America, especially about Black womanhood. The article starts with introduction, a discussion about African American culture in general. To produce an up to date writing, the article choses the recent popular singer, Beyonce. In finding Black womanhood concepts in Beyonce’s lyrics. One thing that also needs to be highlighted is Black women’s sexuality.The findings are about Black womanhood from Beyonce’s standpoint, such as the Black woman’s self-definition, the sisterhood, the relationship between mother and daughter, and the relationship with Black men. In addition, since it highlights the Black woman’s sexuality in Hip-Hop that is based on Beyonce’s songs, it indicates that recently Black women began to realize that they have power over their own body.Keywords: Black womanhood, sexuality, Hip-Hop music, Lyrics
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Nettles-Barcelón, Kimberly D., Gillian Clark, Courtney Thorsson, Jessica Kenyatta Walker, and Psyche Williams-Forson. "Black Women’s Food Work as Critical Space." Gastronomica 15, no. 4 (2015): 34–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2015.15.4.34.
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Black American women have long sustained a complex relationship to food—its production, consumption, and distribution within families, communities, and the nation. Black women, often represented in American culture as “natural” good cooks on the one hand and beset by obesity on the other, straddle an uncomfortable divide that is at the heart of contemporary debate about the nature of our food system. Yet, Black women as authorities in the kitchen and elsewhere in matters of food—culturally, politically, and socially—are largely absent, made invisible by the continued salience of intersecting vectors of disempowerment: race/gender/class/sexuality. In this dialogue, we bring together a variety of agents, approaches, explorations, and examples of the spaces where Black American women have asserted their “food voices” in ways that challenge fundamentally the status quo (both progressive and conservative) and utilize the dominant discourses to create spaces of dissent and strategic acquiescence to the logics of capital ever-present in our food systems.
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Bailey, Moya, and Izetta Autumn Mobley. "Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework." Gender & Society 33, no. 1 (October 12, 2018): 19–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243218801523.
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A Black feminist disability framework allows for methodological considerations of the intersectional nature of oppression. Our work in this article is twofold: to acknowledge the need to consider disability in Black Studies and race in Disability Studies, and to forward an intersectional framework that considers race, gender, and disability to address the gaps in both Black Studies and Disability Studies. By employing a Black feminist disability framework, scholars of African American and Black Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Disability Studies have a flexible and useful methodology through which to consider the historical, social, cultural, political, and economic reverberations of disability.
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Lezama, Nigel. "Status, Votive Luxury, and Labour: The Female Rapper’s Delight." Fashion Studies 1, no. 2 (2019): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.38055/fs010202.
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Rap and luxury fashion form hip hop’s most unshakable couple. However, female rappers appear to have a more difficult time acquiring and manipulating luxury fashion. When the female rapper demands expensive clothing from her sex partners, is she complicit in her reification as a sexually alienated subject or is she highlighting the value of black women’s labour? In fact, if we look closely at the nexus of luxury fashion, sexuality, and female rappers, there occurs an important transformation of the luxury sign. For rappers like Roxanne Shanté, Nicki Minaj, and Cardi B, luxury objects and branded fashion are not symbols of taste or habitus, in the sense Bourdieu (1979) gives them. Instead, these female rappers question the social weight carried by the luxury commodity; they demand consecration, in the truest sense of the word, through the luxury gift; or, conversely, they highlight the luxury commodity’s real use value.
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Stephens, Angeline, and Floretta Boonzaier. "Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power." Feminism & Psychology 30, no. 3 (April 4, 2020): 324–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353520912969.
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Current conceptualisations of citizenship in South Africa are embedded in the egalitarian discourse of the Constitution, lauded for its recognition of historically marginalised groups, including sexually and gender diverse people. Within the paradox of progressive legal advancements and the legacy of colonialism and apartheid, we use a decolonial feminist lens to critically engage with the notion of citizenship for black lesbian women in contemporary South Africa. We adopt a social-psychological perspective of citizenship as an active practice, embedded within the dynamic intersections of historical, structural and discursive patterns of power-knowledge relations in everyday life. We draw from five focus group discussions that were part of a study that explored the intersections of identity, power and violence in the lives of black lesbian women in South Africa. Focusing on the enactments of citizenship in public spaces, we contend that black lesbian women’s lived experiences of citizenship point to the enduring manifestations of the coloniality of power, in which the centrality of race underpins the intersections of class, gender and sexuality. We conclude by arguing that current conceptualisations of full citizenship in contemporary South Africa require a reframing that recognises the coloniality of power and the heterogeneity of marginalised and invisibilised subjectivities.
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Montlouis-Gabriel, Johanna. "At her pleasure: Black women writing sexual desire." CFC Intersections: Volume 1, Issue 1 1, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfci.2022.5.
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Black women’s bodies and sexualities have particularly been exposed and spoken about in public spaces from an outsider perspective. In this essay, I ground the exploration of sexual pleasure as described and imagined by Black female characters in contemporary short stories written by Black French women. I examine three short stories from the anthology Volcaniques: Une anthologie du Plaisir (2015) by Gisèle Pineau, Léonora Miano, and Hemley Boum to explore how these writers complicate, expand, and subvert heteronormative notions of pleasure, and seek it via their Black female characters. Instead of further silencing Black women’s sexuality for fear of reinscribing hypersexual tropes, or reiterating narratives of trauma and unhappy sexualities, these narratives reclaim women’s bodies and sexualities for their pleasures. I take an intersectional and afrofeminist approach to underscore the different forms of sexual (and other forms of) pleasure for middle-class Black French women. These narratives prove to be a mirror for other Black women who read and experience pleasure as well as a window to the variety of ways they experience and write about (sexual) pleasure and desire. Ultimately, beyond body and sexual positivity, by writing about these sexual matters, these compelling narratives lay claim to the humanity of middle-class Black women.
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Starr-Morris, Ashley. "Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women’s Sexuality, by Monique Moultrie." Women's Studies 49, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 103–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2020.1714380.
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Williams, Apryl. "Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women’s Sexuality, written by Monique Moultrie." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 9, no. 1 (May 1, 2020): 134–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10005.
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Chmielewski, Jennifer F., Christin P. Bowman, and Deborah L. Tolman. "Pathways to Pleasure and Protection: Exploring Embodiment, Desire, and Entitlement to Pleasure as Predictors of Black and White Young Women’s Sexual Agency." Psychology of Women Quarterly 44, no. 3 (May 20, 2020): 307–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684320917395.
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Sexual agency is a fundamental dimension of sexual subjectivity and well-being. Research and theory suggest that it functions in the service of both protection from harm and enabling sexual pleasure. However, sexual agency can be difficult for women to navigate in a social landscape in which femininity ideologies remain powerful social forces, operating in racialized ways. We examined how embodiment, sexual desire, and entitlement to sexual pleasure were associated with sexual agency in the service of protection (i.e., condom use and refusing unwanted sex) and pleasure (i.e., asking for what one wants from a sexual partner) for Black and White heterosexual college women using path analysis and path invariance testing. We found that across race, women’s embodiment was associated with greater comfort with their sexual desire, which in turn was associated with greater entitlement to sexual pleasure and sexual agency in service of both pleasure and protection. While Black and White women evidenced similar levels of both forms of agency, Black participants’ agency in the service of protection was unrelated to their entitlement to sexual pleasure. We discuss these findings in light of racialized discourses of women’s sexuality and the importance of understanding sexual desire as anchored in the body and enabling young women’s sexual agency.
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Avery, Lanice R., Alexis G. Stanton, L. Monique Ward, Sarah L. Trinh, Morgan C. Jerald, and Elizabeth R. Cole. "Remixing the Script? Associations Between Black-Oriented Media Consumption and Black Women’s Heteropatriarchal Romantic Relationship Beliefs." Journal of Black Psychology 47, no. 7 (June 15, 2021): 593–625. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00957984211021236.
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Black-oriented media may offer Black women an opportunity to produce and consume empowering messages that challenge heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs, but they may also foster their endorsement. Drawn by this paradox, we surveyed 597 undergraduate and graduate Black women aged 18 to 30 years to examine exposure to Black-oriented media and their association with the acceptance of heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs. Correlation and regression analyses showed that reading more Black magazines was associated with increased acceptance of heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs. Although it has been argued that media depictions of sexually agentic and empowered Black women may help disrupt and subvert the hegemonic nature of heteropatriarchal discourses in society, our findings suggest that some Black-oriented media may instead be associated with endorsing restrictive, scripted gender norms for intraracial romantic relationships.
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Jennings, Kyesha. "City Girls, hot girls and the re-imagining of Black women in hip hop and digital spaces." Global Hip Hop Studies 1, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 47–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ghhs_00004_1.
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Through a hip hop feminist lens, how are we to interpret black girls’ and women’s self-identification in digital spaces that visibly resonate with new/remixed images? And more importantly, what happens when black female rap artists and their fan base disrupt, subvert or challenge dominant gender scripts in hip hop in order to navigate broader discourses on black female sexuality? Drawing on the work of Joan Morgan and hip hop feminist scholarship in general, this essay aims to offer a critical reading of ‘hot girl summer’. Inspired by Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion’s lyrics on ‘Cash Shit’, where she raps about ‘real hot girl shit’, the phrase has morphed into a larger-than-life persona not only for Megan’s rap superstar profile, but also for a number of black girls. According to Megan, a hot girl summer is ‘about women and men being unapologetically them[selves] […] having a good-ass time, hyping up their friends, doing [them]’. What does ‘hot girl summer’ tell us about significant changes in the ways that black women cultivate community in digital spaces, how they construct their identities within systems of controlling images and grapple with respectability politics? In order to address these questions with a critical lens, using an interdisciplinary approach grounded in black feminism and hip hop feminism, this essay offers a theoretical approach to a digital hip hop feminist sensibility (DHHFS). Too little has been said about black women’s representation in digital spaces where they imagine alternative gender performance, disrupt hegemonic tropes and engage in participatory culture.
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RudeWalker, Sarah. "“a thunderin/lightenin poet-talkin / female / is a sign of things to come”." Langston Hughes Review 28, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.28.1.0025.
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ABSTRACT Ntozake Shange had a notably complex relationship with her inheritance of the Black Arts project. While she was clearly influenced by the politics of Black nationalism and the aesthetic innovations of the movement in claiming Black language practices as powerful tools of poetic expression, she also struggled to feel accepted and represented within Black nationalist camps. However, this conflict in fact puts her in the company of women writers of the Black Arts Movement, who themselves had been working for years within the movement to move the needle on problematic conceptions of gender and sexuality. In her unpublished early poems written between 1970 and 1972, Shange’s use of Black linguistic and rhetorical resources aligns with the contemporaneous work of other Black Arts women poets and successfully demonstrates the most generative elements of the Black Arts project. But by the beginning of her public career in the mid-1970s, Shange importantly moves independently beyond the Black Arts project to insist on a necessary reckoning with the barriers, within and outside of the Black community, to Black women’s liberation. This article draws upon archival research to reveal the ways Shange’s early work demonstrates both her inheritance and her innovation of the rhetorical and poetic strategies that Black Arts women writers used to make their case that Black women should be central to and vocal within Black nationalist movements.
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Leath, Seanna, Jami C. Pittman, Petal Grower, and L. Monique Ward. "Steeped in Shame: An Exploration of Family Sexual Socialization Among Black College Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 44, no. 4 (August 27, 2020): 450–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684320948539.
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Most research on Black girls’ sexuality emphasizes reducing risk behaviors, with less attention to dimensions of healthy and normative sexual development, such as body positivity. To address this gap, we sought to explore the diversity of sexual messaging young Black women received during their formative years. Using consensual qualitative research methods, we explored how 50 Black college women (ages 18–24 years) described their sexual socialization within family contexts in relation to their current sexual beliefs and behaviors. The following themes emerged from the data: messages of discretion, negative messages about physical appearance, messages of deference, messages of abstinence, absence of sexual messages, messages of body positivity, messages of egalitarianism, messages of sex positivity, and messages of sexual distrust and dismissiveness. Black families’ sexual socialization processes were also influenced by ethnicity, social class, and religious orientation. Our findings situate Black women’s family sexual socialization practices within a sociohistorical framework and highlight the need to support Black girls’ healthy sexual development by eliminating fear, shame, or taboo around sexual exploration. Education and advocacy efforts should focus on communicating openly with youth to help them make more positive decisions about sex and bodily autonomy.
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Arora, Neha, and Stephan Resch. "“Undoing” Gender." Screen Bodies 3, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/screen.2018.030102.
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Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001) and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) are films about women directed by men. Both films unorthodoxly chart women artists’ struggle with the discipline imposed on them by the arts and by their live-in mothers. By portraying mothers as their daughters’ oppressors, both films disturb the naïve “women = victims and men = perpetrators” binary. Simultaneously, they deploy audiovisual violence to exhibit the violence of society’s gender and sexuality policy norms and use gender-coded romance narratives to subvert the same gender codes from within this gender discourse. Using Judith Butler’s and Michael Foucault’s theories, we argue that Haneke and Aronofsky “do” feminism unconventionally by exposing the nexus of women’s complicity with omnipresent societal power structures that safeguard gender norms. These films showcase women concurrently as victim-products and complicit partisans of socially constructed gender ideology to emphasize that this ideology can be destabilized only when women “do” their gender and sexuality differently through acts of subversion.
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Johnson, Adeerya. "Dirty South Feminism: The Girlies Got Somethin’ to Say Too! Southern Hip-Hop Women, Fighting Respectability, Talking Mess, and Twerking Up the Dirty South." Religions 12, no. 11 (November 22, 2021): 1030. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12111030.
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Within southern hip-hop, minimal credit has been given to the Black women who have curated sonic and performance narratives within the southern region. Many southern hip-hop scholars and journalists have centralized the accomplishments and masculinities of southern male rap performances. Here, dirty south feminism works to explore how agency, location, and Black women’s rap (lyrics and rhyme) and dance (twerking) performances in southern hip-hop are established under a contemporary hip-hop womanist framework. I critique the history of southern hip-hop culture by decentralizing male-dominated and hyper-masculine southern hip-hop identities. Second, I extend hip-hop feminist/womanist scholarship that includes tangible reflections of Black womanhood that emerge out of the South to see how these narratives reshape and re-inform representations of Black women and girls within southern hip-hop culture. I use dirty south feminism to include geographical understandings of southern Black women who have grown up in the South and been sexually shamed, objectified and pushed to the margins in southern hip-hop history. I seek to explore the following questions: How does the performance of Black women’s presence in hip-hop dance localize the South to help expand narratives within dirty south hip-hop? How can the “dirty south” as a geographical place within hip-hop be a guide to disrupt a conservative hip-hop South through a hip-hop womanist lens?
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Stokes, Lynissa, and Leslie Brody. "Self-Silencing, but Not Sexual Relationship Power Associated with Condom Use for Black College-Aged Women." Behavioral Sciences 9, no. 2 (January 28, 2019): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs9020013.
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Black adolescent and young adult women in the United States experience a disproportionately higher rate of HIV infections than White and Hispanic adolescent and young adult women. Heterosexual sexual activity is the main route of infection for women, regardless of race or ethnicity. We examined two potential barriers to reducing Black adolescent and young adult women’s HIV risk: high levels of self-silencing and low levels of sexual relationship power. Data were collected on a small convenience sample of sexually active Black college-aged women (N = 57, Mage = 19.6, SD = 1.4) who answered questions about their current or most recent dating relationship. We found that higher levels of self-silencing were significantly related to lower condom use frequency and to a lower likelihood of reporting condom use at last sex. No significant associations were found between sexual relationship power and condom use (frequency or at last sex). Data from this study suggest that self-silencing, which involves putting the needs of others ahead of one’s own in order to avoid conflict in relationships, is an important variable to consider when examining potential risk factors for sexually transmitted HIV among Black college-aged women. Implications for future studies on HIV risk are reviewed.
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Alimahomed-Wilson, Sabrina. "The Matrix of Gendered Islamophobia: Muslim Women’s Repression and Resistance." Gender & Society 34, no. 4 (June 26, 2020): 648–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243220932156.
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Drawing on 75 semi-structured qualitative interviews with Arab, South Asian, and Black Muslim women social justice activists, ages 18–30 years, organizing in the United States and the United Kingdom, I theorize their experiences as the basis of the matrix of gendered Islamophobia. Building upon Jasmine Zine’s concept of gendered Islamophobia, I synthesize this concept with Patricia Hill Collins’s theory of the matrix of domination to give a more in-depth and nuanced structure of how gendered Islamophobia operates and is resisted by Muslim women activists. This article identifies the overlapping configurations of power that affect Muslim women’s lives through structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal domains, countering reductionist accounts of Islamophobia as a universalized, unvariegated social force impacting all Muslims in similar ways (thereby privileging Muslim men’s experiences and subjectivities while contributing to the erasure of Muslim women’s agency). Instead, the matrix of gendered Islamophobia locates Islamophobia within shifting axes of oppression that are simultaneously structured along the lines of gender, race, class, sexuality, and citizenship. The findings of this research reveal a dialectical relationship between Muslim women’s oppression and simultaneous contestation of gendered Islamophobia via their collective remaking of alternative ideas, politics, discourses, and organizing practices.
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Nolte, Kerry, Barbara Guthrie, John Griffith, and Tiffany Kim. "Black Women’s Approaches to Encourage a Male Partner to Test for HIV: Preliminary Adaptation and a Factor Analysis Study of the HIV Testing Approach Scale." Journal of Nursing Measurement 26, no. 1 (May 2018): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1061-3749.26.1.76.
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Background and Purpose:Black women are disproportionately affected by HIV. Increasing status awareness through partner testing can improve status awareness and reduce transmission. Varying approaches to encourage HIV testing are described but a measurement instrument is lacking. The AIDS Discussion Strategy Scale (ADSS) was adapted into the HIV Testing Approach Scale (HTAS) to measure Black women's approaches to encourage partners to test for HIV.Methods:Preliminary adaptation included five steps to ensure validity. Participants comprised 158 sexually active 18–29-year-old Black women. The HTAS was analyzed with principal components analysis (PCA).Results:PCA indicated a four-factor model explaining 67% of variance. Four distinct approaches were Active Persuasion, Decisive Collaboration, Ultimatum, and Sweet Talking. The HTAS approaches demonstrated adequate reliability.Conclusion:The HTAS may serve as a valid and reliable instrument for research. HIV prevention should encourage testing discussion to increase status awareness.
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Arifin, Morshedul, and Shah Ahmed. "Reversal of Stereotypes in Alice Walker's The Color Purple: God, Gender, Narrative and Sexuality." Palimpsest - East Delta University Journal of English Studies 2, no. 1 (December 7, 2021): 10–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.46603/pedujes.v2i1.2.
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Unlike most African-American authors, who constantly mirror the repressive effects of racism, classicism and gender discrimination, Alice Walker (1944–) in her The Color Purple (1982) compulsively deals with sexism that was still pervasive within African American communities during the early twentieth century. She argues that just as black groups are relegated to an underclass due to the colour of their skin in a wider milieu of white society, in the same way the black women are reduced to a more inferior class due to their sex in their own community. For women’s self-emancipation from such an inhibitory patriarchy, the novel gives an overarching emphasis on the formation of language, execution of voice, review of sexual preference and redefinition of identity of her female characters, the protagonist Celie in particular. This paper examines how, by a fusion of the bildungsroman and epistolary conventions, the novelist melds a unique way for her women creating a God for their own and carving out a niche in social and economic concerns. It assesses the strategic reversal of gender stereotype as well as sexual orientation in order to establish the independence and equality of women on a par with men. The paper ends up with the claim that the novel is predicated upon the theoretical prism of womanism, previously premised by Walker herself, which puts extensive emphasis on a deeper, empathetic relationship and camaraderie of women.
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Merten, Michael J., and Amanda L. Williams. "Body mass index, self-esteem and weight contentment from adolescence to young adulthood and women’s risk for sexually transmitted disease." Sexual Health 11, no. 6 (2014): 561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh14020.
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Background Women’s risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were examined in terms of adolescent and young adult weight status, self-esteem trajectories and weight contentment using two waves of a nationally representative dataset. Methods: Using Waves 1 and 3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, body mass index (BMI), self-esteem and weight contentment were examined during adolescence and young adulthood to assess the likelihood of STDs among 4000 young adult single women. Results: Change in BMI, specifically weight loss between adolescence and young adulthood, significantly increased women’s risk for STDs. Continuously low self-esteem during adolescence and young adulthood significantly increased women’s risk for STDs. When women’s contentment with their weight decreased from adolescence to young adulthood, women’s risk for STDs was greater. Regardless of other variables, Black women were more likely to have an STD. Conclusions: Results suggest that women’s self-perception is important in reducing sexual risk; specifically, patterns of self-esteem, BMI and weight contentment across developmental periods should be a critical focus of research and practice related to adolescent and young adult sexual health. There are many known benefits to fostering self-esteem during adolescence and findings from this study add STD prevention among young women to this list. Results emphasise the needed prevention during adolescence to address self-perspective and self-esteem for the long-term sexual well-being of young women.
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Cheryl D. Hicks. "“Bright and Good Looking Colored Girl”: Black Women’s Sexuality and “Harmful Intimacy” in Early-Twentieth-Century New York." Journal of the History of Sexuality 18, no. 3 (2009): 418–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.0.0064.
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Onaran, Aslihan Tokgöz. "Counterpatriarchal Pleasures of Muslim Turkish Women: A Feminist Ethnography of Rural Women Watching Daytime Television." Hawwa 9, no. 1-2 (2011): 171–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920811x578511.
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AbstractThis article examines the intersection of patriarchal hegemony, television viewing, domestic power relations and individual agency in the daily lives of rural Turkish women. More specifically, it analyzes the reception of daytime American soap operas by women in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. Employing an interdisciplinary methodology that combines ethnography, textual analysis and transnational feminist theory, this study investigates how women’s media experiences allow them to resist their traditional roles assigned by Islamic patriarchies.Among the major questions addressed are, “In what ways does soap viewership reflect the appropriation of anti-patriarchal modes of knowledge? How do soap operas allow women to question local gender norms? How, for example, does viewer identification with a female soap opera character committing adultery disrupt traditional gender norms, in which an act of adultery may lead to an honor killing?”Turkish women’s viewership habits as well as their pleasures from the anti-traditional plots contribute to the creation of a resistive female sphere. This study illustrates the multiple levels through which this female forum is socially constructed. I argue that women’s viewing pleasures and the actualization of a powerful female homosociality furnish the structural conditions under which alternative forms of meaning can gain a public momentum. Although respondents’ diverse uses of soap operas do not represent the formation of organized feminist protest, they, nevertheless, reflect these women’s dissatisfaction with the status quo. As such, soap viewership allows women to challenge traditional norms of gender and sexuality in the villages where this study was conducted.
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Adams-Santos, Dominique. "“Something a bit more personal”: Digital storytelling and intimacy among queer Black women." Sexualities 23, no. 8 (March 4, 2020): 1434–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460720902720.
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Coming-out stories are important cultural texts wherein individuals articulate and interpret experiences of identifying as sexual minorities. Yet, much of the extant literature on coming-out stories examines narratives by white, middle-class gay men and lesbians. Critical inquiry into coming-out stories told by privileged queer subjects points to the formulaic and normative characteristics of their narratives, where sexual difference is downplayed or challenged. The goal of this article, then, is to ask whether and how coming-out narratives told by queer Black women conform to or depart from the “coming-out formula story.” Using an intersectional approach to narrative analysis, this article investigates the performative and discursive strategies that 50 women use in telling their coming-out stories on YouTube. Findings show that queer Black women’s use of intimate candor—the performative and discursive strategy of publicly revealing interior, often sexually explicit, aspects of the self—is a means through which women center desire and queerness; articulate a vision of queer Black womanhood; and complicate the coming-out formula.
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Kilty, Jennifer M., and Katarina Bogosavljevic. "Emotional storytelling: Sensational media and the creation of the HIV sexual predator." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 15, no. 2 (May 14, 2018): 279–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659018773813.
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More than 180 people in Canada have faced criminal charges related to HIV nondisclosure. Media coverage is often sensational and commonly portrays people living with HIV as hypersexualized threats to the (inter)national body politic. This article analyzes mainstream news media coverage of four HIV nondisclosure cases to examine how the accused (two men, two women) are constructed as sexual predators, which we found occurs through two key discursive moves. First, by tying the narrative to stereotypical conceptualizations of hegemonic and toxic masculinity and pariah femininity to construct the individual as promiscuous, hypersexual and dangerous. Second, by crafting a narrative that evokes complex moral emotions; notably, these include the ‘negative’ emotions of anger, disgust and fear. Given that racialized men are disproportionately represented and demonized in media accounts, and the tense race relations in the current western political landscape, it is important to consider how emotions (rather than medical evidence of the risks of transmission, intent to infect or actual transmission) might contribute to shaping punitive mentalities and the harsh application of the law. By examining how race, gender, class and sexuality are mobilized to construct narratives of Black masculinity as inherently toxic and women’s sexual freedom as exemplifying pariah femininity, and the ways in which the coverage evokes negative moral emotions, we contend that media coverage shores up moralized discourses about sexuality, masculinity and femininity and HIV/AIDS.
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Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock. "Ante-Oedipus." History of the Present 12, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 4–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21599785-9547212.
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Abstract This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century—a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation that developed in and around the first factories of the modern world, namely, the sugar plantations of the colonial Caribbean. The article links Freud’s own economic and intellectual history to the production of capital and the theft of land and labor in the Caribbean by way of the central European trade in textiles and global cotton production. Examining a series of family portraits, the article locates the eclipsed yet central force of Black women’s productive and socially reproductive work extracted for the creation of white, heteropatriarchal reproduction and property accumulation.
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Bryant, Courtney. "Moultrie, Monique. Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women’s Sexuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. xi+187 pp. $24.95 (cloth)." Journal of Religion 101, no. 2 (April 1, 2021): 282–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/712904.
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Henderson, Carol E. "It’s All in the Name: Hip Hop, Sexuality, and Black Women’s Identity in Breakin’ In: The Making of a Hip Hop Dancer." Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 2, no. 1 (2013): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pal.2013.0004.
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Harvey, Tyler D., Ijeoma Opara, and Emily A. Wang. "Role of the Intersections of Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation in the Association between Substance Use Behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Infections in a National Sample of Adults with Recent Criminal Legal Involvement." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 7 (March 30, 2022): 4100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074100.
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Limited research has focused on how substance use and sexual risk behaviors differ among individuals impacted by the criminal legal system based on social identities. Using the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, we estimated relative risk for reporting a sexually transmitted infection (STI) among intersectional social groups with criminal legal involvement using a modified Poisson regression. We then utilized multivariate logistic regression and marginal effects to measure associations between substance use behaviors and STIs and to estimate whether these varied among the intersectional social groups with elevated STI rates. Three groups had elevated risk of reporting an STI compared to white, heterosexual men: white, heterosexual women (1.53, 95% CI: 1.05–2.20); Black, heterosexual women (2.03, 95% CI: 1.18–3.49); and white, gay or bisexual men (5.65, 95% CI: 2.61–12.20). Considering the intersections of gender, race, and sexual orientation, elevated risks for STIs among white and Black heterosexual women were mitigated after adjusting for substance use alongside other confounders. Only those who identified as white, gay or bisexual, and male had increased STI risk after controlling for substance use. Interventions targeting Black and white heterosexual women’s sexual health following incarceration should focus on substance use and interventions targeting white, gay or bisexual men should focus on healthy sexual behaviors, HIV/STI screening, and care continuum efforts.
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Robinson, Marissa, and Rasheeta Chandler. "132 A Qualitative Exploration of Preexposure Prophylaxis Among Black Women Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 6, s1 (April 2022): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2022.45.
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OBJECTIVES/GOALS: This proposed qualitative study aims to explore the perspectives about PrEP among heterosexual, cisgender Black women currently enrolled at an HBCU. Specifically, this study will elucidate this populations knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs surrounding PrEP uptake and marketing. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: The Health Belief Model adapted from Chandler, Hull et al. (2020) will be utilized as the conceptual framework to guide this study. Multiple virtual semi structured focus groups will be conducted with individuals at two HBCUs. Study participants (n=20-25) will meet the following inclusion criteria: (a) self-identifies as Black/African American, (b) was assigned female at birth, (c) is enrolled at Morgan State University or Spelman College, (d) is 18 years or older, (e) is sexually active (anal, oral, vaginal, or experimental), (f) is HIV negative, (g) has multiple sexual partners and/or has inconsistent condom usage. A qualitative data analysis will be conducted utilizing MAXQDA software to perform a thematic analysis by creating a codebook and identifying prominent themes related to perceptions and use of PrEP. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The research is on-going pending IRB approval. Data collection will include questions focused on topics surrounding PrEP, barriers/facilitators to participation in a proposed PrEP campaign, and sexual/reproductive health. These findings will characterize the awareness of PrEP among Black HBCU women, identify factors that may facilitate or cause barriers to Black HBCU womens knowledge and uptake of PrEP, and identify best practices for successful marketing strategies for PrEP campaigns targeting uptake among HBCU women DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: Findings from this study can help the public health community tailor PrEP campaigns designed for college-age Black women thereby curtailing HIV transmission among this at-risk group.
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Pearce, Tola Olu. "Monique Moultrie, Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women’s Sexuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 187. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)." Journal of African American History 105, no. 3 (June 1, 2020): 525–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/709347.
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Sanders, Stephanie A., Richard A. Crosby, Robin R. Milhausen, Cynthia A. Graham, Amir Tirmizi, William L. Yarber, Laura Beauchamps, and Leandro Mena. "Women’s willingness to experiment with condoms and lubricants: A study of women residing in a high HIV seroprevalence area." International Journal of STD & AIDS 29, no. 4 (August 22, 2017): 367–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956462417727690.
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The objective of this study was to investigate women’s willingness to experiment with new condoms and lubricants, in order to inform condom promotion in a city with high rates of poverty and HIV. One hundred and seventy-three women (85.9% Black) sexually transmitted infection clinic attendees in Jackson, Mississippi, United States completed a questionnaire assessing willingness to experiment with condoms and lubricants and sexual pleasure and lubrication in relation to last condom use. Most women were willing to: (1) experiment with new types of condoms and lubricants to increase their sexual pleasure, (2) touch/handle these products in the absence of a partner, and (3) suggest experimenting with new condoms and lubricants to a sex partner. Previous positive sexual experiences with lubricant during condom use predicted willingness. The role women may play in male condom use should not be underestimated. Clinicians may benefit women by encouraging them to try new types of condoms and lubricants to find products consistent with sexual pleasure.
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Sharma, Suksham, Anju Dogra, and Shalli Bavoria. "Women’s knowledge and practices of modern contraceptives in rural Jammu." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 9, no. 2 (January 28, 2022): 694. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20220077.
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Background: India was the first country in the world to adapt a national population control program in 1952. So, it is important for couples and society as a whole to understand and adopt the methods of family planning. Use of contraceptives can prevent at least 25% of all maternal deaths by preventing unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions and also protect against sexually transmitted infections.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the women of the reproductive age group (15-49 years) in gynae OPD of community health centre of block Bishnah in district Jammu.Results: The study was conducted in 408 women of the reproductive age group. Almost all the women had knowledge of various spacing methods, maximum being for being for oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) (96%), followed by intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUCD) (93.8%) and 90.9% for condoms. However, they had less knowledge about injectable contraceptives (13.9%).Conclusions: Family planning related knowledge was found to be very encouraging with two-third having a positive attitude as well. Main identified reasons for contraceptive defaults were unsustain availability, side-effects, need of a child and family opposition. It is hence, important to improve education of women to overcome barriers to modern contraceptive methods.
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Nam, Sung-sook. "Alice Munro’s Discourse on Sex in Lives of Girls and Women." Convergence English Language & Literature Association 7, no. 2 (August 30, 2022): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.55986/cell.2022.7.2.1.
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This thesis explores Munro's discourse of sex in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women. It focuses on three short stories in the text that deal with sexuality. The protagonist, Del recognizes that the most stumbling block to the change in women’s lives is conventional thinking about sex. Del, with thoughts and actions that are contrary to the guidelines of convention, tries to get sexual experiences. Del subjectively attempts body contact and sexual intercourse, then, watches her body's reaction, observes the male sexual organs, and makes new discoveries about the male body. Furthermore, she realizes that there are fallacies in traditional thinking on sex. In love with Garnet, who seems to be free from convention, Del freely releases her language of body and gets positive thinking about body. She learns that physical love is tied to spiritual love. But Munro's discourse does not allow for completeness. Del’s refusal to be baptized, which is Garnet's request contains the gist of Munro's discourse of sex. Through this, Munro deconstructs the binary thinking that divided the body and the mind, breaks the hierarchy of divinity and secularity, and dismantles the social ideology that sexual love should result in marriage.
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Pereira, Maísa Galdino, Daniele Pereira Soares, Cícera Renata Diniz Vieira Silva, Dayze Djanira Furtado de Galiza, Mayara Evangelista de Andrade, and Marcelo Costa Fernandes. "Historicidade e singularidade da saúde da mulher negra: repercussões do cuidado do enfermeiro na atenção primária a saúde." Revista Recien - Revista Científica de Enfermagem 12, no. 37 (March 19, 2022): 463–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.24276/rrecien2022.12.37.463-471.
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Analisar as repercussões do cuidado do enfermeiro da Atenção Primária à Saúde a partir da historicidade e singularidade da mulher negra. Estudo descritivo, com abordagem qualitativa, sustentado na análise de discurso de Michel Pêcheux, realizado entre os meses de março e maio de 2017 com oito enfermeiros da Atenção Primária à Saúde do município de Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brasil. Para a coleta de dados foi utilizada uma entrevista semiestruturada. Observou-se o desconhecimento e despreparo profissional acerca da saúde da mulher negra e da Política Nacional de Saúde Integral da População Negra, porém ainda foi possível avaliar em um discurso sutil dos enfermeiros, algumas doenças mais voltadas a população negra, como hipertensão arterial, diabetes mellitus, anemia falciforme e as IST’s. Desta maneira é necessária a educação permanente dos profissionais, preparando-os para ações integralizadas e transversais que perpassem as barreiras impostas ao cuidado em saúde da mulher negra.
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Historicity and singularity of the health of black women’s health: repercussions of nursing care in primary health care
Abstract: To analyze the repercussions of nursing care in Primary Health Care from the historicity and singularity of black women. Descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, based the of Michel Pêcheux’s discourse analysis, performed between March and May 2017 with eight nurses from the Primary Health Care network of the city of Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil. In order to collect data, we used a semi-structured interview script. We noted a lack of professional knowledge and training about the issue of black women’s health and the National Policy for the Comprehensive Health of the Black Population, but it was still possible to check, in a subtle discourse of nurses, some diseases more focused on the black population, such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, sickle cell anemia and sexually transmitted infections. Given the above, it is necessary to foster the continuing education of professionals, preparing them for comprehensive and transverse actions that pervade the barriers imposed to the health care of black women.
Descriptors: Health of Ethnic Minorities, Women’s Health, Nursing Care.
Historicidad y singularidad de la salud de la mujer negra: repercusiones de la atención de enfermería en la atención primaria de salud
Resumen: El objetivo fue analizar las repercusiones de la atención de enfermería en la Atención Primaria de Salud basándose en la historicidad y la singularidad de la mujer negra. Estudio descriptivo, con enfoque cualitativo, anclado en análisis del discurso de Michel Pêcheux, efectuado entre marzo y mayo de 2017 con ocho enfermeros de la Atención Primaria de Salud del ayuntamiento de Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brasil. Para la recolección de datos, se utilizó un guion de entrevista semiestructurada. Se notó el desconocimiento y la falta de preparación profesional sobre la salud de la mujer negra y la Política Nacional de Salud Integral de la Población Negra, pero aún se pudo chequear, en un sutil discurso de los enfermeros, algunas enfermedades más dirigidas hacia la población negra, como la hipertensión arterial, la diabetes mellitus, la anemia falciforme y las infecciones de transmisión sexual. Ante ello, es necesaria la educación continua de los profesionales, preparándolos para acciones integrales y transversales que traspasen las barreras impuestas a la atención de la salud de la mujer negra.
Descriptores: Salud de Minorías Étnicas, Salud de la Mujer, Atención de Enfermería.