Hamilton Books
Pages: 176
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-5228-5 • Paperback • August 2010 • $39.99 • (£31.00)
978-0-7618-5229-2 • eBook • August 2010 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Shayne Lee received a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and is now associate professor of sociology and African Diaspora studies at Tulane University. Lee is also the author of T.D. Jakes: America's New Preacher and co-author of Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace, both published by New York University Press.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Flipping the Sexual Script: The Social Construction of Sexuality
Chapter 4 2. Sultry Divas of Pop and Soul: Janet, Beyoncé, and Jill
Chapter 5 3. Confessions of a Video Vixen
Chapter 6 4. Zane's Urban Erotica
Chapter 7 5. Serena and the Power Chicks
Chapter 8 6. Vagina Power: Alexyss Tylor and the Sexperts
Chapter 9 7. Black Clergywomen and Sexual Discourse
Chapter 10 8. Erotic Queens of Comedy
Chapter 11 9. Tyra Banks: Erotic Talk Show Host
Chapter 12 Epilogue: Surfing the Third Wave
Chapter 13 References
Chapter 14 About the Author
This book is a notable contribution to the field.
— Elevate Difference
This project seeks to provide middle-class black women (and all other black women) a safe, though public, space in which to assert a sexual independence that is free from the trappings of black respectability. Lee challenges us to take the very same snippets from music videos, films, and magazines that are typically defined as unrespectable and exploitive and see them as “nuggets of empowerment.”
— Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society