Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States
Title:
Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States
Author:
Gentles-Peart, Kamille, author.
ISBN:
9780803295155
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Series:
Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
Expanding frontiers.
Contents:
The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women -- Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship -- Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States -- Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital -- Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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