Jezebel unhinged: loosing the black female body in religion and culture

Prolegomenon: "hoeism or whatever": Black girls and the sable letter "b" -- Introduction: "a thousand details, anecdotes, stories": mining the discourse on Black womanhood -- Black Venus and Jezebel sluts: writing race, sex, and gender in religion and culture -- "T...

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Main Author: Lomax, Tamura A. 1973- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham London Duke University Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Women, Black / Sexual behavior / Society / Religion
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
CB Christian life; spirituality
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B Jezebel Queen, consort of Ahab, King of Israel
B African American churches
B African American Women Sexual behavior
B African American Women
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Summary:Prolegomenon: "hoeism or whatever": Black girls and the sable letter "b" -- Introduction: "a thousand details, anecdotes, stories": mining the discourse on Black womanhood -- Black Venus and Jezebel sluts: writing race, sex, and gender in religion and culture -- "These hos ain't loyal": white perversions, Black possessions -- Theologizing Jezebel: womanist cultural criticism, a divine intervention -- "Changing the letter": toward a Black feminist study of religion -- The Black church, the Black lady, and Jezebel: the cultural production of feminine-ism -- Whose "woman" is this?: reading Bishop T.D. Jakes's Woman, Thou Art Loosed! -- Tyler Perry's new revival: Black sexual politics, Black popular religion, and an American icon -- Epilogue: dangerous machinations: Black feminists taught us
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1478000791