Nessette Falu

Unseen Flesh

Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice within hostile gynecological spaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025184
• ISBN-10: 1478025182
• Artikelnr.: 66941993

Autorenporträt

Nessette Falu is Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Bearing Witness to Unseen Flesh  1
1. The Virgin Who Lives within Her Erotic Worth  21
2. Unseen Flesh: Gynecological Trauma, Emotional Power, and Intimate
Sociomedical Violence  51
Interlude One: Angela  77
3. The Social Clinic: Mapping the Social and Colonial World of Gynecology 
79
Interlude Two: It Doesn’t Matter  111
4. Are We Ethical Subjects? Seeing Ourselves in Shapeshifting Ethics  113
5. Bem-Estar Negra: Lésbicas Negras’ Beautiful Experiments of Worth  141
Notes  169
References  179
Index  195