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"Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color."--

Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- United States of America --- Body image --- Aesthetics. --- Human body in popular culture. --- Art and race. --- Body image in art. --- Body image in women. --- Body image in girls. --- African American women in art. --- Hispanic American women. --- Social aspects. --- Aesthetics --- Social class --- Women --- Female body --- Blackness --- Black feminism --- Book --- Imaging

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"Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of "hauntology" to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women"-- "Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women's sexuality "haunt" contemporary postcolonial African scholarship which, by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women's sexuality, generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of "hauntology" and "ghostly matters" to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how "ghosts" from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women's sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women's power and autonomy."--

Body image in women --- Postcolonialism --- Women --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Imagination --- Visualization --- Psychology --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:316.346H29 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: andere topics --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Africa --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / African. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- Body --- Racism --- Images of women --- Black feminism --- Book --- Imaging

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While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, 'Feeding Desire' analyses the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality. By demonstrating how a particular beauty ideal can only be understood within wider social structures and cultural logics, the book also implicitly provides a new way of thinking about the ideal of slimness in late Western capitalism. Offering a reminder that an estimated 80% of theworld's societies prefer plump women, this gracefully written book is both a fascinating exploration of the nature of bodily ideals and a highly readable ethnography of a Saharan people.

Muslim women --- Women, Arab --- Overweight women --- Sex customs --- Body image in women --- Human body --- Musulmanes --- Femmes arabes --- Femmes obèses --- Vie sexuelle --- Image du corps chez la femme --- Corps humain --- Social aspects --- Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger) --- Azaouak, Vallée de l' (Mali et Niger) --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Niger --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Developmental psychology --- Human physiology --- Africa --- Mali --- Arab States --- #SBIB:316.7C121 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Arab women --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Islamic women --- Women, Muslim --- Body, Human --- Cultuursociologie: gedragspatronen, levensstijl --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Axaouak (Mali and Niger) --- Azaouak (Mali and Niger) --- Azawagh Valley (Mali and Niger) --- Azawak Valley (Mali and Niger) --- Azeouak Valley (Mali and Niger) --- Oued Azaouak (Mali and Niger) --- Vallée de l'Azaouak (Mali and Niger) --- Vallée de l'Azawagh (Mali and Niger) --- Vallée de l'Azawak (Mali and Niger) --- Vallée de l'Azeouak (Mali and Niger) --- Arab states --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Overweight persons --- Women --- Obesity in women --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Mind and body --- Psychology --- Muslimahs --- Appearance --- Féminité --- Female body --- Book --- Anthropology