REVIEWS

"For centuries black women's bodies have been the object of ridicule, loathing, fascination, and desire - whether it's been in the context of the global Slavocracy, at the hands of elite politicians, or little boys watching hip-hop videos. In her brilliant tome Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson allows the bodies of black women to tell their stories, in the process making the claim that the sensuality and physicality of black women's bodies are indeed sites of resistance and intellectual production."
- Mark Anthony Neal, author of New Black Man

"Hobson's writing is intelligent without being buried in that bane of so many otherwise fascinating texts, academic jargon, despite her position in women's studies. This is a book accessible to virtually any reader, and one that many black women, and their white compatriots, would surely find illuminating in their encounters with cultural conundrums of competing demands for sexual display and 'modesty.'"
- Natalie Bennet, Blogcritics.org (See Full Review)