5. (Mis)Playing Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality In The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction: “Somebody Almost Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff ”: Black Female Sexualities And Black Feminist Intervention 1
5. Part I. Sexual Embod(Y)Ment: Framing The Body
6. 1. Entering Through The Body’S Frame: Precious And The Subjective Delineations Of The Movie Poster 13
7. 2. Is It Just Baby F(Ph)At? Black Female Teenagers, Body Size, And Sexuality 27
8. 3. Corporeal Presence: Engaging The Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body In Feminist Classrooms And College Communities 41
9. 4. Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, And The Black Female Youth In Octavia Butler’S Fledgling 57
10. Part II. Disengaging The Gaze
11. 5. (Mis)Playing Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality In The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl 73
12. 6. Why Don’T We Love These Hoes? Black Women, Popular Culture, And The Contemporary Hoe Archetype 89
13. 7. What Kind Of Woman? Alberta Hunter And Expressions Of Black Female Sexuality In The Twentieth Century 100
14. 8. The P-Word Exchange: Representing Black Female Sexuality In Contemporary Urban Fiction 113
15. Part III. Resisting Erasure
16. 9. “Ou Libéré?” Sexual Abuse And Resistance In Edwidge Danticat’S Breath, Eyes, Memory 129
17. 10. Rape Fantasies And Other Assaults: Black Women’S Sexuality And Racial Redemption On Film 141
18. 11. “Embrace The Narrative Of The Whole”: Complicating Black Female Sexuality In Contemporary Fiction 159
19. 12 Saving Me Through Erasure? Black Women, HIV/AIDS, And Respectability 180
20. Afterword: Being Present, Facing Forward 191
21. Bibliography 197
22. Contributors 209
23. Index 215