No 13 (2016)

Body Politics: Representations and the Impact of Black Women in Music

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This special-issue is guest-edited by Cherise Charleswell, a public health practitioner, womanist independent author, activist, and radio producer.

Table of Contents

Articles

Getting into Formation: Beyoncé, The Affirmation of Blackness, & Black Women’s Agency over Their Bodies
Cherise Charleswell
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‘Jump around if yuh man can wuk!’: Celebrating Sex, Female Power and Dancehall’s Re-imaginings of Grassroots, Jamaican Feminist Knowledge
Agostinho M. N. Pinnock
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Sacred Silence
Toni Pressley-Sanon
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Skin . Body . Seduction . Nude
D. Othniel Forte
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Wearable Art: Adornment as a Form of Womanist Resistance and Self-Identification in the African Diaspora
Cherise Charleswell
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The Complex Stripper Persona: Goddess Priestess, Black and Curvalicious—Pussy Served Delicious
Ravá Shelyn Chapman
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