JBP Special Issue Call for Papers: Black Women’s Body Image: Implications for Identity Formation and Well-Being

Cotter E. W. Kelly N. R. Mitchell K. S. Mazzeo S. E. (2015). An investigation of body appreciation, ethnic identity, and eating disorder symptoms in Black women. Journal of Black Psychology, 41(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798413502671

Gomez J. Gobin R. (2020). Black Women and Girls & #MeToo: Rape, cultural betrayal, & healing. Sex Roles, 82, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-019-01040-0

Lindsey T. (2018). Ain’t nobody got time for that: Anti-Black girl violence in the era of #SayHerName. Urban Education, 53(2), 162-175. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085917747098

McMurtry-Chubb T. A. (2015). # SayHerName #BlackWomensLivesMatter: State violence in policing the Black female body. Mercer Law Review, 65, 651-672. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/mercer67&i=675

Peterson S. H. Wingood G. M. DiClemente R. J. Harrington K. Davies S. (2007). Images of sexual stereotypes in rap videos and the health of African American female adolescents. Journal of Women’s Health, 16(8), 1157-1164. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2007.0429

Stephens D. P. Phillips L. D. (2003). Freaks, gold diggers, divas, and dykes: The sociohistorical development of adolescent African American women’s sexual scripts. Sexuality & Culture, 7, 3-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03159848

Watson N. N. Hunter C. D. (2015). Anxiety and depression among African American women: The costs of strength and negative attitudes toward psychological help-seeking. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21(4), 604-612. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000015

Weissinger S. E. Mack D. A. Watson E. (2017). Violence against Black bodies: An intersectional analysis of how Black lives continue to matter. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315408705

West C. M. (1995). Mammy, sapphire, and jezebel: Historical images of Black women and their implications for psychotherapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 32(3), 458-466. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-3204.32.3.458