Task 4- web biblio

http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~abarian/class%20pdfs/Selling_Ho-Pussy.pdf

8:Selling hot pussy:representations of black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace:Bell Hooks

pg 123- ' the fascination with black 'butts' continues. In the sexual iconography of the traditional black pornographic imagination the protuding butt is seen as an indication of heightened sexuality

pg124- many black women singers, irrespective of the quality of their voices, have cultivated an image which suggests they are sexually available and licentious.

pg127- 'whats love got to do with it' sung by Tina Turner evokes images of the strong bitchified black women who is on the make. Subordinating the idea of romantic love and praising the use of sex for pleasure as commodity to exchange, the song had great appeal for contemporary postmodern culture.

pg127- just as black female prostitutes in the 1940's and 1950's actively sought clients in the street to make money to survive thereby publicly linking prostitution with black female sexuality, contemporary black female sexuality is fictively constructed in popular rap and R&B songs soley as commodity-sexual service from mone and pwer, pleasure is secondary.