TRIMIKO MELANCON is an assistant professor of English, African American studies, and women’s studies at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation.    JOANNE M. BRAXTON is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of English and the Humanities at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition.

"This is a rich, multifaceted volume that leaves few if any stones unturned in exploring the themes of sex, sexuality, and feminism in relation to Black women." - Noliwe Rooks (Cornell University) "This volume provides an illuminating discourse about the meaning, metaphors, and magnitude of black female sexuality as an agent of both oppression and transformation." - Paula J. Giddings (author of IDA: A Sword Among Lions)

• ForewordMelissa Harris-PerryIntroduction    “somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff”: Black Female Sexualities and Black Feminist Intervention-Trimiko MelanconPart I Sexual Embod(y)ment: Framing the BodyChapter 1        Entering Through the Body’s Frame: Precious and the Subjective Delineations of the Movie Poster Kimberly Juanita BrownChapter 2        Is It Just Baby F(Ph)at?: Black Female Teenagers, Body Size, and SexualityCourtney J. PattersonChapter 3        Corporeal Presence: Engaging the Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body in Feminist Classrooms and College CommunitiesMel Michelle LewisChapter 4        Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, and the Black Female Youth in Octavia Butler’s FledglingEsther L. JonesPart II         Disengaging the GazeChapter 5        Mis(Playing) Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality in The Misadventures of Awkward Black GirlAriane CruzChapter 6        Why Don’t We Love These Hoes?: Black Women, Popular Culture, and the Contemporary Hoe ArchetypeMahaliah Ayana LittleChapter 7        What Kind of Woman?: Alberta Hunter and Expressions of Black Female Sexuality in the Twentieth CenturyK. T. EwingChapter 8        The “P-Word” Exchange: Representing Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Urban FictionCherise A. PollardPart III        Resisting ErasureChapter 9        “Ou libÉrÉ?”: Sexual Abuse and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, MemorySandra C. DuvivierChapter 10      Rape Fantasies and Other Assaults: Black Women’s Sexuality and Racial Redemption on FilmErin D. ChapmanChapter 11      “Embrace the Narrative of the Whole”: Complicating Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary FictionJohanna X. K. GarveyChapter 12      Saving Me through Erasure?: Black Women, HIV/AIDS and RespectabilityAyana K. WeekleyAfterword: Being Present, Facing ForwardJoanne M. BraxtonBibliographyNotes on Contributors

TRIMIKO MELANCON is an assistant professor of English, African American studies, and women’s studies at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation.    JOANNE M. BRAXTON is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of English and the Humanities at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition.

"This is a rich, multifaceted volume that leaves few if any stones unturned in exploring the themes of sex, sexuality, and feminism in relation to Black women." - Noliwe Rooks (Cornell University) "This volume provides an illuminating discourse about the meaning, metaphors, and magnitude of black female sexuality as an agent of both oppression and transformation." - Paula J. Giddings (author of IDA: A Sword Among Lions)

• ForewordMelissa Harris-PerryIntroduction    “somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff”: Black Female Sexualities and Black Feminist Intervention-Trimiko MelanconPart I Sexual Embod(y)ment: Framing the BodyChapter 1        Entering Through the Body’s Frame: Precious and the Subjective Delineations of the Movie Poster Kimberly Juanita BrownChapter 2        Is It Just Baby F(Ph)at?: Black Female Teenagers, Body Size, and SexualityCourtney J. PattersonChapter 3        Corporeal Presence: Engaging the Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body in Feminist Classrooms and College CommunitiesMel Michelle LewisChapter 4        Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, and the Black Female Youth in Octavia Butler’s FledglingEsther L. JonesPart II         Disengaging the GazeChapter 5        Mis(Playing) Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality in The Misadventures of Awkward Black GirlAriane CruzChapter 6        Why Don’t We Love These Hoes?: Black Women, Popular Culture, and the Contemporary Hoe ArchetypeMahaliah Ayana LittleChapter 7        What Kind of Woman?: Alberta Hunter and Expressions of Black Female Sexuality in the Twentieth CenturyK. T. EwingChapter 8        The “P-Word” Exchange: Representing Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Urban FictionCherise A. PollardPart III        Resisting ErasureChapter 9        “Ou libÉrÉ?”: Sexual Abuse and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, MemorySandra C. DuvivierChapter 10      Rape Fantasies and Other Assaults: Black Women’s Sexuality and Racial Redemption on FilmErin D. ChapmanChapter 11      “Embrace the Narrative of the Whole”: Complicating Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary FictionJohanna X. K. GarveyChapter 12      Saving Me through Erasure?: Black Women, HIV/AIDS and RespectabilityAyana K. WeekleyAfterword: Being Present, Facing ForwardJoanne M. BraxtonBibliographyNotes on Contributors

TRIMIKO MELANCON is an assistant professor of English, African American studies, and women’s studies at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation.    JOANNE M. BRAXTON is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of English and the Humanities at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition.

"This is a rich, multifaceted volume that leaves few if any stones unturned in exploring the themes of sex, sexuality, and feminism in relation to Black women." - Noliwe Rooks (Cornell University) "This volume provides an illuminating discourse about the meaning, metaphors, and magnitude of black female sexuality as an agent of both oppression and transformation." - Paula J. Giddings (author of IDA: A Sword Among Lions)

• ForewordMelissa Harris-PerryIntroduction    “somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff”: Black Female Sexualities and Black Feminist Intervention-Trimiko MelanconPart I Sexual Embod(y)ment: Framing the BodyChapter 1        Entering Through the Body’s Frame: Precious and the Subjective Delineations of the Movie Poster Kimberly Juanita BrownChapter 2        Is It Just Baby F(Ph)at?: Black Female Teenagers, Body Size, and SexualityCourtney J. PattersonChapter 3        Corporeal Presence: Engaging the Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body in Feminist Classrooms and College CommunitiesMel Michelle LewisChapter 4        Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, and the Black Female Youth in Octavia Butler’s FledglingEsther L. JonesPart II         Disengaging the GazeChapter 5        Mis(Playing) Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality in The Misadventures of Awkward Black GirlAriane CruzChapter 6        Why Don’t We Love These Hoes?: Black Women, Popular Culture, and the Contemporary Hoe ArchetypeMahaliah Ayana LittleChapter 7        What Kind of Woman?: Alberta Hunter and Expressions of Black Female Sexuality in the Twentieth CenturyK. T. EwingChapter 8        The “P-Word” Exchange: Representing Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Urban FictionCherise A. PollardPart III        Resisting ErasureChapter 9        “Ou libÉrÉ?”: Sexual Abuse and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, MemorySandra C. DuvivierChapter 10      Rape Fantasies and Other Assaults: Black Women’s Sexuality and Racial Redemption on FilmErin D. ChapmanChapter 11      “Embrace the Narrative of the Whole”: Complicating Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary FictionJohanna X. K. GarveyChapter 12      Saving Me through Erasure?: Black Women, HIV/AIDS and RespectabilityAyana K. WeekleyAfterword: Being Present, Facing ForwardJoanne M. BraxtonBibliographyNotes on Contributors