Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex

by GOLDEN, MARITA

• ISBN13: 9780385424011
• ISBN10: 0385424019
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-07-01
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

Bringing together fourteen African-American women, Marita Golden has compiled saucy and spicy essays that serve as an exploration into the contemporary black female psyche. Ranging in style from Audre Lorde's classic polemic on eroticism to Miriam DeCosta Willis's deeply moving essay on her husband's last years, "every single one of these essays is terrific." --The Washington Post

Author Biography

Marita Golden is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. Her books include After, Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons, and Don’t Play in the Sun. She is the founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, an organization that supports African American writers. She lives in Mitchellville, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Tough Boyz and Trouble: Those Girls Waiting Outside D.C. Jail Remind Me of Myself	p. 1
"Marilyn" from The Habit of Surviving	p. 13
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power	p. 45
Letting Go with Love	p. 57
A New Shower Massage, Phone Sex, and Separation	p. 71
Walking in My Mother's Footsteps to Love	p. 83
Sleeping with the Enemy	p. 97
Black Men, White Women: A Sister Relinquishes Her Anger	p. 113
Mars Conjunct Neptune	p. 127
The Act Behind the Word	p. 147
Decisions of Safety: A Personal Story	p. 161
Wounded in the House of a Friend	p. 173
In the Wink of an Eye: Black Lesbians and Gay Men Together	p. 187
However You Come to Me	p. 203
Black Men Do Feel About Love	p. 213
Notes on the Contributors	p. 227
Acknowledgments	p. 231
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