Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / / Kamille Gentles-Peart
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| Autore: |
Gentles-Peart Kamille
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| Titolo: |
Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / / Kamille Gentles-Peart
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.4896/9729 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women, Black - Caribbean Area |
| Women immigrants - United States | |
| Caribbean Americans - Cultural assimilation | |
| Body image - United States | |
| Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - United States | |
| Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - Caribbean Area | |
| Racism - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Romance with voluptuousness |
| ISBN: | 0-8032-9515-4 |
| 0-8032-9513-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465994503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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