{"product_id":"erotic-testimonies-hardcover","title":"Erotic Testimonies: Black Women Daring to Be Wild and Free - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia S. Jordan-Zachery\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eErotic Testimonies\u003c\/i\u003e draws inspiration from Audre Lorde's \"Uses of the Erotic\" to explore how Black women access their interiority and use their feelings to engage in processes of self-actualization and make themselves free. Blending genres and resisting the confines of conventional scholarly analysis, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery undertakes what she characterizes as a performative embodied reading of testimonies by four \"wild\" women from her own life. Jordan-Zachery takes care not to define what constitutes a wild woman-that's been done enough to oppressive ends-but rather tends to these women's forms and means of self-articulation. Complex accounts of wildness, freedom, femininity, the erotic, and the divine emerge from her field notes. \u003ci\u003eErotic Testimonies\u003c\/i\u003e attests to the experience of the individual as well as, and even more importantly, how the individual speaks to a broader collective that here includes Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Janet Jackson, the author, her grandmother, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia S. Jordan-Zachery \u003c\/b\u003eis Chair and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. She is the editor (coedited with Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd) of \u003ci\u003eBlack Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by SUNY Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42120137769095,"sku":"9781438491172","price":177.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/edaf2f43d612234e5697ba9631bf5467_b61f8806-0a60-4c09-aaf8-18989e361869.webp?v=1732545411","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/erotic-testimonies-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}