Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frances Ellen Watkins sings the body electric / Michael Bennett
  • "The deeds done in my body": black feminist theory, performance, and the truth about Adah Isaacs Menken / Daphne A. Brooks
  • The flower of Black female sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona / Dorri Rabung Beam
  • Shopping to pass, passing to shop: bodily self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith
  • Re-locating the Black female subject: the landscape of the body in the poems of Lucille Clifton / Ajuan Maria Mance
  • Body language: the Black female body and the word in Suzan-Lori Park's The death of the last Black man in the whole entire world / Yvette Louis
  • Detecting bodies: Barbara Neely's domestic sleuth and the trope of the (in)visible woman / Doris Witt
  • Summoning somebody: the flesh made word in Toni Morrison's fiction / Vanessa D. Dickerson
  • On being a fat black girl in a fat-hating culture / Margaret K. Bass
  • Body and soul: identifying (with) the Black lesbian body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon woman / Mark Winokur
  • Pumping iron with resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious body / Jacqueline E. Brady
  • Wearing your race wrong: hair, drama, and a politics of representation for African American women at play on a battlefield / Noliwe Rooks (photographs by Bill Gaskins)
  • Afterword: recovery missions: imaging the body ideals / Deborah E. McDowell.