Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals
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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
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xxi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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African American young women -- Sexual behavior -- History
African American young women -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African American young women -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Man-woman relationships.
Prostitution. -- United States -- History
Sex customs -- United States -- History
Single women. -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Single women. -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Urban women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Urban women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
African American young women -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African American young women -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Man-woman relationships.
Prostitution. -- United States -- History
Sex customs -- United States -- History
Single women. -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Single women. -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Urban women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Urban women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
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Book
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-418) and index
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"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were 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. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them--domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty--and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires."--Publisher's description
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hartman, S. V. (2020). Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals . W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hartman, Saidiya V.. 2020. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hartman, Saidiya V.. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hartman, Saidiya V.. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
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