Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body

Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon--the black female body--and contemporary artists' interventions upon historical images of black women as exotic Others, erotic fantasies, and supermaternal Mammies. Written by experts in African and African American art and illustrated with more than 200 historical and contemporary images, this book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of race and gender in art and culture. Barbara Thompsonn is curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American collections at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.