Title: Wild women don't wear no blues : Black women writers on love, men, and sex /
Authors: Golden, Marita.
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1993
Subjects: African American women authors Attitudes.; Man-woman relationships United States; African Americans Sexual behavior.; Love; American literature African American authors; African American women Intellectual life.; African Americans Literary collections; African American women Attitudes.
Abstract: A collection of essays exploring the contemporary Black female psyche, of "what happens when you ask a Black woman to think, not in passing, but long and hard, about love, men and sex."
Contents: Tough boyz and trouble : those girls waiting outside D.C. Jail remind me of myself / Patrice Gaines -- "Marilyn" from The habit of surviving / Kesho Yvonne Scott -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Letting go with love / Miriam Decosta-Willis -- A new shower massage, phone sex, and separation / Tina McElroy Ansa -- Walking in my mother's footsteps to love / Marita Golden -- Sleeping with the enemy / Audrey Edwards -- Black men, white women : a sister relinquishes her anger / Bebe Moore Campbell -- Mars conjunct Neptune / Judy Dothard Simmons -- The act behind the word / Dorisjean Austin -- Delusions of safety : a personal story / Marcia Ann Gillespie -- Wounded in the house of a friend / Sonia Sanchez -- In the wink of an eye : black lesbians and gay men together / Jewelle Gomez -- However you come to me / Ntozake Shange -- Black men do feel about love / Audrey B. Chapman.