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Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / Kamille Gentles-Peart.

Van Pelt Library HQ1501 .G467 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gentles-Peart, Kamille, author.
Series:
Expanding frontiers
Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women, Black--Caribbean Area.
Women, Black.
Women immigrants--United States.
Women immigrants.
Caribbean Americans--Cultural assimilation.
Caribbean Americans.
Body image--United States.
Body image.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Caribbean Area.
Racism--United States.
Racism.
United States.
Caribbean Area.
Physical Description:
x, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Contents:
The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women
Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship
Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States
Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital
Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
ISBN:
9780803290808
0803290802
OCLC:
945693728

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