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040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aE185.86 _bL481 E 2010
100	1		_aLee, Shayne,
245	1	0	_aErotic revolutionaries : _bblack women, sexuality, and popular culture / _cShayne Lee.
260			_aLanham, Maryland : _bHamilton Books, a member of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, _c2010
300			_a147 p.
505	0		_aHKBU Library
520			_aWhy 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.
650		0	_aAfrican American women in popular culture.
650		0	_aAfrican American women _xPsychology. _9183668
650		0	_aSex in popular culture.
650		0	_aAfrican American women _xRace identity.
650		0	_aSelf-perception in women _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWomen in popular culture _zUnited States. _9473
650		7	_aAfrican American women in popular culture.
650		7	_aAfrican American women _xPsychology. _9183668
650		7	_aAfrican American women _xRace identity.
650		7	_aSelf-perception in women.
650		7	_aSex in popular culture.
650		7	_aWomen in popular culture.
651		7	_aUnited States.
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