Wayward lives, beautiful experiments :
intimate histories of social upheaval /
Saidiya Hartman.

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Main Author
Hartman, Saidiya V.
Language(s)
English
Published
©2019
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition
First edition.
Subjects
Börngen, ...
Man-woman relationships.
Prostitution > United States > History.
Sex customs > United States > History.
Urban women > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Urban women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Single women > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Single women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American young women > Sexual behavior > History.
African American young women > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American young women > Social conditions > 19th century.
Soziale Situation
Sexualverhalten
Schwarze
Urban women > Social conditions.
Single women > Social conditions.
Sex customs.
Prostitution.
Man-woman relationships.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > Women.
Relations entre hommes et femmes.
Vie sexuelle > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes en milieu urbain > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Femmes en milieu urbain > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Femmes seules > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Femmes seules > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Jeunes femmes noires américaines > Sexualité > Histoire.
Jeunes femmes noires américaines > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Jeunes femmes noires américaines > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Man-woman relationships.
Prostitution > United States > History.
Sex customs > United States > History.
Urban women > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Urban women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Single women > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Single women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American young women > Sexual behavior > History.
African American young women > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American young women > Social conditions > 19th century.
United States.
Nonfiction.
History.
Nonfiction.
Summary
"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them--domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty--and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires."--Publisher's description
Physical Description
xxi, 441 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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9780393285673
0393285677
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