Infamous bodies : early Black women's celebrity and the afterlives of rights /
"Infamous Bodies portrays five black women "celebrities" from the late-18th and 19th centuries whose histories and ongoing fame have generated new ways of imagining black feminist futures. Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Saartjie Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Bonetta have each be...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Infamous bodies, corrective histories
- Fantasies of freedom : Phillis Wheatley and the "deathless fame" of Black feminist thought
- The romance of consent : Sally Hemings, Black women's sexuality, and the fundamental vulnerability of rights
- Venus at work : the contracted body and fictions of Sarah Baartman
- Civic desire : Mary Seacole's adventures in Black citizenship
- #Developmentgoals : sovereignty, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and the production of the Black feminist political subject
- Conclusion: Black feminist celebrity and the political life of vulnerability.
