Jezebel unhinged : loosing the Black female body in religion and culture /
"In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define black girlhood and womanhood. Drawing on writing by medieval thin...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
