black women, sexuality, and popular culture Lee, Shayne creator text bibliography mdu Lanham, Maryland Hamilton Books, a member of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group 2010 monographic eng

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147 p. Why is there no "pro-sex" contigency in black feminist scholarship? Why do so few African-American scholars expound on issues celebrating female sexual pleasure? Perhaps the answers to these questions reside within a discursive matrix of sexual repression commonly referred to as the politics of respectability, and its rein on black sexual politics. In Erotic Revolitionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, sociologist Shayne Lee steers black sexual politics toward a more sex-positive trajectory. Introducing feminist analysis to a conceptual ménage à trois of scripting theory, media redpresentation, and black sexual politics. Lee considers the ways in which the feminist quest for social and sexual equality can delve into popular culture to see the production of subversive scripts for female sexuality and erotic agency. Whereas most feminist scholarship underscores how sexual representations of black women in media are exploitative and problematic, Lee portrays black female celebrities like Janet Jackson, Beyonce, Karrine Steffans, Zane, Trya Banks, Juanita Bynum, Sheryl Underwood and many more as feminists of sorts who afford women access to cultural tools to renegotiate sexual identity and celebrate sexual agency and empowerment. Erotic Revolutionaries navigates the uncharted spaces where social constructionism, third-wave feminist, and black popular culture collide to locate a new site for sexuality studies that is theoretically innovative, politically subversive, and stylistically chic.--Publisher. HKBU Library Shayne Lee. African American women in popular culture African American women Psychology Sex in popular culture African American women Race identity Self-perception in women United States Women in popular culture United States African American women in popular culture African American women Psychology African American women Race identity Self-perception in women Sex in popular culture Women in popular culture United States E185.86 L481 E 2010 9780761852285 076185228X SDU 160709