TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gentles-Peart,Kamille
TI  - Romance with voluptuousness: Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States 
T2  - Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
AV  - HQ1501 .G467 2016
U1  - 305.4896/9729 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - United States
KW  - Caribbean Americans
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Body image
KW  - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
KW  - Racism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women -- Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship -- Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States -- Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital -- Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4644293
ER  -