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Informationen zum Autor Tamura Lomax Klappentext Tamura Lomax is an independent scholar! CEO and founder of The Feminist Wire! and coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions. Zusammenfassung In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the historical and contemporary use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture! showing how it disciplines black women and girls and preserves gender hierarchy! black patriarchy! and heteronormativity in black families! communities! cultures! and institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prolegomenon. "Hoeism or Whatever": Black Girls and the Sable Letter "B" vii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. "A Thousand Details, Anecdotes, Stories": Mining the Discourse on Black Womanhood 1 1. Black Venus and Jezebel Sluts: Writing Race, Sex, and Gender in Religion and Culture 13 2. "These Hos Ain't Loyal": White Perversions, Black Possessions 34 3. Theologizing Jezebel: Womanist Central Criticism, a Divine Intervention 59 4. "Changing the Letter": Toward a Black Feminist Study of Religion 82 5. The Black Church, the Black Lady, and Jezebel: The Cultural Production of Feminine-ism 108 6. Whose "Woman" Is This?: Reading Bishop T. D. Jakes's Woman, Thou Art Loosed! 130 7. Tyler Perry's New Revival: Black Sexual Politics, Black Popular Religion, and an American Icon 169 Epilogue. Dangerous Machinations: Black Feminists Taught Us 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index 251
