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Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature
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In many, but not all representations, black women's bodies were stigmatized as hypersexual, positioning black women as the moral opposites of pure white women.
“In many, but not all representations, black women's bodies were also stigmatized as hypersexual, a characterization that positioned black women as the moral opposites of pure white women.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gilman, S. L.
- Corresponding author
- Gilman, Sander L.
- ORCID
- Gilman, Sander L.
- Venue
- Critical Inquiry
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1985-10
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 204-242
- ISSN
- 0093-1896 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-7858
- OpenAlex
- W2053060818
- Cited by
- 953
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 41 · 2018: 49 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 36 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 60
- FWCI
- 6.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Critical Inquiry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Decadence, Literature, and Society
- Keywords
- female sexuality, iconography, Black body, white body, late 19th century, art, medicine, literature, race and gender, representation of women
- MeSH terms
- Art, Literature, Sexual Behavior, History, Modern 1601-
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