Description: Title: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Author: Hartman, Saidiya Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Binding: Paperback Pages: 464 Dimensions: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d Product Weight: 0.8 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780393357622 Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship 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. Here, for the first time, these women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments recovers these women's radical aspirations and insurgent desires. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Women, Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Sociology / General, General, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Prostitution & Sex Trade
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Family & Relationships, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 12.4 Oz
Author: Saidiya Hartman
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
