Toward a genealogy of black female sexuality: The problematic of silence

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures.

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 170-182

  Hammonds, Evelynn M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203724200-15     Document Type: Chapter

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