{"product_id":"erotic-testimonies","title":"Erotic Testimonies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eErotic Testimonies\u003c\/i\u003e draws inspiration from Audre Lorde''s \"Uses of the Erotic\" to explore how Black women access their interiority and use their feelings to engage in processes of self-actualization and make themselves free. Blending genres and resisting the confines of conventional scholarly analysis, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery undertakes what she characterizes as a performative embodied reading of testimonies by four \"wild\" women from her own life. Jordan-Zachery takes care not to define what constitutes a wild woman-that''s been done enough to oppressive ends-but rather tends to these women''s forms and means of self-articulation. Complex accounts of wildness, freedom, femininity, the erotic, and the divine emerge from her field notes. \u003ci\u003eErotic Testimonies\u003c\/i\u003e attests to the experience of the individual as well as, and even more importantly, how the individual speaks to a broader collective that here includes Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Janet Jackson, the author, her grandmother, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484118589813,"sku":"9781438491165","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781438491165.jpg?v=1786266153","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/erotic-testimonies","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}