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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

1 online resource (210 pages)

ISBN 9780803295148 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780803295155 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780803290808

ISBN 9780803290808 (cloth : alk. paper)

Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality

Print version: Gentles-Peart, Kamille. Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality ISBN 9780803290808

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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