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100 1  Hartman, Saidiya V.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Wayward lives, beautiful experiments :|bintimate histories
       of riotous black girls, troublesome women, and queer 
       radicals /|cSaidiya Hartman 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c2020 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    xxi, 441 pages :|billustrations ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-418) and 
       index 
520    "A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black 
       women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, 
       Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the 
       revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in 
       Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 
       twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient 
       marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of 
       wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among
       the sweeping changes that altered the character of 
       everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs
       about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the 
       story of this radical social transformation against the 
       grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the 
       crisis of the black family. In wrestling with the question
       of what a free life is, many young black women created 
       forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the
       dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. 
       They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to 
       subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and 
       desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They 
       refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading 
       conditions of work. Beautifully written and deeply 
       researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of 
       young urban black women who desired an existence 
       qualitatively different than the one that had been 
       scripted for them--domestic service, second-class 
       citizenship, and respectable poverty--and whose intimate 
       revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the
       first time, young black women are credited with shaping a 
       cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. 
       Through a melding of history and literary imagination, 
       Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and 
       insurgent desires."--Publisher's description 
650  0 African American young women|xSocial conditions|y19th 
       century. 
650  0 African American young women|xSocial conditions|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 African American young women|xSexual behavior|xHistory. 
650  0 Single women|zUnited States|xSocial conditions|y19th 
       century. 
650  0 Single women|zUnited States|xSocial conditions|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Urban women|zUnited States|xSocial conditions|y19th 
       century. 
650  0 Urban women|zUnited States|xSocial conditions|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Sex customs|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Prostitution|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Man-woman relationships.