Selling Hot Pussy Flashcards
What is the symbolic significance of the chocolate breasts?
“Mammies” - black women who took care of white children
“A sign of displaced longing for a racist past when the bodies of black women were a commodity”
What does Gilman emphasize the black female body is a symbol of?
“An icon for black sexuality in general”
Why is there still a fascination with black “butts?”
Seen as an indication of heightened sexuality
When does the black female body gain attention?
“Only when it is synonymous with accessibility, availability; when it is sexually deviant”
What are the two racist/sexist stereotypes Tina Turner’s character plays in Mad Max 1985?
The black “mammy” turned power hungry
The sexual savage who uses her body to seduce and conquer men
How is black female sexuality fictively constructed in popular rap and R&B music?
As a commodity - sexual service for money and power
Reflective of the black female prostitutes in the 40s and 50s who sought to make money to survive
Links prostitution with black female sexuality
Why was the introduction of black women in magazines racist?
They had to resemble white counterparts as closely as possible
How does bell hooks suggest we black women can transgress traditional boundaries of black female sexuality?
Make the oppositional space where sexuality can be named and represented and no longer trapped as sexual subjects
