Bodies That Work: African American Women's Corporeal Activism in Progressive America

ISBN-13: 9781433167232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 188 str.

Tami Miyatsu

Opis

Bodies that Work describes the redefinition of the invisible, fragmented, and commodified African American female body in Progressive era America.

Spis treści

List of Figures - Acknowledgments - Author's Note - Introduction - The Grassroots Network of African American Women: Madam C. J. Walker's Hair Care Empire - Vocal Cords Vibrating against Black Codes: The Socio-Musical Activism of E. Azalia Hackley - Mutilated Womb, Violated Motherhood: Mary Turner and Meta Warrick Fuller's Sculptural Protest - Performing Savagery and Civility: The Subversive Nudity of Josephine Baker - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Tami Miyatsu is a professor of American literature at Kansai Gaidai University, Japan. She earned a PhD from the University of Tsukuba. She has received MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) for studies on women's slave narratives and the black women's club movement.