You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
“When I agreed to write it, she sent me three essays, by Audre Lorde, Luisah Teish and Tracy A. Gardner. I was moved by the essays and the following “introduction”—published in Ms. before book publication simply as “A Fable”—was the result.The “fable” works, I think, as a story, and in fact it appears as one, rather than as an introduction, in Take Back the Night. However, if I had written it as a story originally, making up all the parts myself, or choosing my informants, my analysis of the roo...ts of vicious white male pornographic treatment of white women would have been somewhat different, with a longer historical perspective.While not denying the obvious connections between the lynching of black men and women (which, as Gardner states, became prevalent only after the Civil War) and the pornographic abuse of white women, I would have argued that the more ancient roots of modern pornography are to be found in the almost always pornographic treatment of black women, who, from the moment they entered slavery, even in their own homelands, were subjected to rape as the “logical”MoreLess
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