Birthing Black Mothers
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 1041-1043
ISSN: 1545-6943
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In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 1041-1043
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Feminist studies: FS, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 279-286
ISSN: 2153-3873
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 515-519
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Feminist formations, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 180-188
ISSN: 2151-7371
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 201-225
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 126-147
ISSN: 1527-1986
In: The black scholar: journal of black studies and research, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 75-78
ISSN: 2162-5387
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 7-22
ISSN: 1741-2773
This article contends that black feminist conceptions of 'pussy power' have prematurely foreclosed an examination of both pussy and its powers, thereby missing the erotic potential inherent in a 'pussy power' that is distinctly black – what I term black pussy power. Taking Pam Grier's Blaxploitation performances in Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) as my primary case studies, I use black pussy power as a conceptual framework through which to read Grier's performances of black eroticism, which enable her to resist racialised gendered sexual subjection and tap into modes of erotic agency otherwise denied to her. Moving away from delimited understandings of pussy as female genitalia or an objectified entity of female sexuality, I mobilise black queer feminist theorisations of the 'arbitrary relation between black sex and gender' to theorise the polymorphous potential of black pussy to signify beyond the narrow gender and sexual grammars currently available to us. 1 At the same time, black pussy's discursive connection to black feminine sexuality animates the insurgent potential of black pussy power to secure nominal black freedoms in the face of state-sanctioned infringements on black erotic life.
In: Women & performance: a journal of feminist theory, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 274-278
ISSN: 1748-5819
In: The black scholar: journal of black studies and research, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 1-2
ISSN: 2162-5387
In: The black scholar: journal of black studies and research, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 3-19
ISSN: 2162-5387