Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0393357627
ISBN 13
9780393357622
OCLC
1138680547
Category
Arte
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Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Pages
464
Tags
History, Man-woman relationships, Single women, African American Studies, Social conditions, Sociology, African American young women, Schwarze, Women's Studies, Urban women, Urban, sexual behavior, Social Science, Sexualverhalten, Prostitution, Frau, Soziale Situation, Ethnic Studies, Sex customs, Women, African American women, African american youth, United States, New York Times reviewed, collection:judy_grahn_award=winner, Queer, LGBTQ anthropology
Description
At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free.
These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These were the pioneers of free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer identities, and single motherhood - all deemed scandalous, even pathological, at the dawn of the twentieth century, though they set the pattern for the world to come.
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman deploys both radical scholarship and profound literary intelligence to examine the transformation of intimate life that they instigated. With visionary intensity, she conjures their worlds, their dilemmas, their defiant brilliance.
These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These were the pioneers of free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer identities, and single motherhood - all deemed scandalous, even pathological, at the dawn of the twentieth century, though they set the pattern for the world to come.
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman deploys both radical scholarship and profound literary intelligence to examine the transformation of intimate life that they instigated. With visionary intensity, she conjures their worlds, their dilemmas, their defiant brilliance.
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