Imagining the Black Female Body

Public Property: On Black Women, Bodies, and First Lady Michelle Obama - Carol E. Henderson * Racing Sex~Sexing Race: The Invention of the Black Feminine Body - Kaila Adia Story * Disembodiments: Ellen Gallagher's Watery Metamorphoses - Ana Nunes * Stigmata : Embodying the Scars of Slavery - Venetria K. Patton * 'Pull Up to the Bumper': Fashion and Queerness in Grace Jones' One Man Show - Maria J. Guzman * Images that Sell: The Black Female Body Imag(in)ed in 1960s and 1970s Magazine Ads - Michelle L. Filling * Four Women, For Women: Black Women - All Grown Up - Debra A. Powell-Wright * The Lower Stratum of History: The Grotesque Comic Stereotypes of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker - Julie Burrell * Navel-erasing: Androgyny and Self-Making in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother - Stacie Selmon McCormick * 'If Rigor is Our Dream': The Re-Membering of Violence by Black Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance - Zetta Elliott * "You . . .You Remind Me of . . .": A Black Feminist's Rejection of the White Imagination - Maria del Guadalupe Davidson