Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
<p>Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals / by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.waterstones.com/author/saidiya-hartman/1905852">Saidiya Hartman.</a> - London : Profile Books, 2021. - 416 p. : ill. ; 20 cm <br>Includes index </p>
ISBN: 9781788163248
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family.
