Romance With Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women And Thick Bodies In The United States (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches To Studies Of Women, Gender, And Sexuality)

Offering a unique vantage point from which to view black womenÆs body image and Caribbean migration, Romance with Voluptuousness illuminates how first- and second-generation immigrant black Caribbean women engage with a thick body aesthetic while living in the United States. Using personal accounts, Romance with Voluptuousness examines the ways in which black women with heritage in the English-speaking Caribbean participate in, perpetuate, and struggle with the voluptuous beauty standard of the black Caribbean while living in the hegemony of thinness cultivated in the United States. It highlights how black Caribbean women negotiate issues of body image deriving from both Caribbean and American pressures to maintain a particular body shape and contend with discourses and practices surrounding the body that aim to marginalize and exclude them from economic, social, and political spaces. By focusing on diasporic Caribbean womenÆs ôromanceö with voluptuousness, Kamille Gentles-Peart explores the transnational flow of beauty ideals and examines how ideas about beauty in the Caribbean diaspora help to shape the experiences of Caribbean black women in the United States.

• | Author: Kamille Gentles-Peart
• | Publisher: University Of Nebraska Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 210 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0803290802
• | ISBN-13: 9780803290808