Jezebel Unhinged - Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture Lomax TamuraPaperback / softback
Jezebel Unhinged - Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture Lomax TamuraPaperback / softback In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and…
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Jezebel Unhinged - Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture Lomax TamuraPaperback / softback
In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define black girlhood and womanhood. Jakes, Lomax shows how black women are written into religious and cultural history as sites of sexual deviation. Drawing on writing by medieval thinkers and travelers, Enlightenment theories of race, the commodification of women's bodies under slavery, and the work of Tyler Perry and Bishop T.D.
She identifies a contemporary black church culture where figures such as Jakes use the jezebel stereotype to suggest a divine approval of the "lady" while condemning girls and women seen as "hos." The stereotype preserves gender hierarchy, black patriarchy, and heteronormativity in black communities, cultures, and institutions. In