Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Contributor(s): Hartman, Saidiya (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393357627 ISBN-13: 9780393357622 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | African American - History | Women - Social Science | Human Sexuality (see Also Psychology - Human Sexuality) |
Dewey: 305.488 |
LCCN: 2018043118 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.80 lbs) 464 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Topical - Black History - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Here, for the first time, these women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments recovers these women's radical aspirations and insurgent desires. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hartman, Saidiya: - Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route and Scenes of Subjection. A MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. She is a professor at Columbia University and lives in New York. |