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Books & Boys: Black Collegiate Women's Heterosexual Practice, Identity, and Self-Definition
Books & Boys: Black Collegiate Women's Heterosexual Practice, Identity, and Self-Definition
Books & Boys is a longitudinal qualitative study that examines gendered relationship formation, sexual practice, and identity negotiation among 39 cisgender heterosexual Black collegiate women from their first year of college or university.
Books & Boys is a longitudinal qualitative study that examines gendered relationship formation, sexual practice, and identity negotiation among 39 cisgender heterosexual Black collegiate women from their first year of college or university.
This research draws on multi-year in-depth interviews and participant journal entries to expand scholarship on collegiate relationship formation and the sexual lives of degree-seeking cisgender heterosexual Black women more broadly. A key goal of the study is to elaborate social science understandings of how Black women navigate a matrix of domination while constructing racialized, gendered, and classed heterosexual identities.Â
This research draws on multi-year in-depth interviews and participant journal entries to expand scholarship on collegiate relationship formation and the sexual lives of degree-seeking cisgender heterosexual Black women more broadly. A key goal of the study is to elaborate social science understandings of how Black women navigate a matrix of domination while constructing racialized, gendered, and classed heterosexual identities.Â
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