Wild Women Don T Wear No Blues Analysis

In the early 1990s, as a literary activist Marita Golden and fourteen other novelist, poets, and journalist created a collection of essays that articulate various experiences of love, sexuality, relationships, and men. Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues works as a collection to give voice to women who are often silenced when it comes to sex, love, and men. Golden seeks that collection does not serve as a reaction to oppressive influences that African American women face, but rather this work serves as a space for Black women to share and validate their lived experiences (Golden, XIV). She uses numerous artist, including Audre Lorde, Tina Mc Elroy, Sonia Sanchez, and Ntozake Shange to share in their experience of sexuality through several forms

In persona voice she shares the experience of emotion that occurs between the man and the wife. With conversations from her inner psyche, the woman questions her identity, worth, and value. She poetically shares the story of the wife finding out and how that shifts the couple’s sexual behaviors. These poems evoked an array of emotions due to its relatability in the expected and desired sacrifice Black women face to maintain relationships with Black men. Black women are often expected and required to place their spouse’s welfare over their own and often when they do not get the same in return, their personal welfare is put into a place of uncertainty, which goes into again the power and agency that sexual security

She explores the trends of dominance as when it comes to men being the head and women essentially being second. She draws attention to the sexual desire differences that men and women experience, how they view sexual health, behaviors, and intimacy. Even though she comes across a bit monolithic in her view of men, she does discuss some of the differences that have men and women view sexuality differently. She reminds of how patriarchy operates in ways in which women are placed in continual oppressive spaces even within their homes and even their