Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women and queer radicals
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free.
These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law. These were the pioneers of free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer identities, and single motherhood - all deemed scandalous, even pathological, at the dawn of the twentieth century, though they set the pattern for the world to come.
TitleWayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women and queer radicals
Author
PublisherSerpent's Tail
Year of publication2021
Pagination390 p.
Illustrationsill.
Dimensions20 cm
Materialboek
ISBN978-1-788163248
Subjectblack studies, women, social history*, queer, slavery
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