Black Woman's Bodies as a site of...

"The womb is the center of a woman's being."


      I believe this quote is very powerful, because the virginity of a women to me, is a sense of her identity. Another form of her femininity and every woman should take pride in themselves. It also can distinguish a sort of character about a woman's being, depending on how she uses it or the way that it has been taken advantage of. Overall, the most important feature I see of a woman's being is that it is the start of child birth.
      In regards to this quote, I felt was quite interesting was the novel "Incidents by a Slave Girl", by Harriet Jacobs, which was about a Caucasian slave master that took advantage of a woman's being as well as her womb. Her name was Linda Brent and she was nothing more than a sexual desire and an experiment for her slave master, Dr. Flint. He pressures her into having sex with him numerous times and she fights it. Instead of being raped by Dr. Flint, she preferably starts sleeping with her neighbor, Mr. Sands. She hoped that Dr. flint would sell her to Mr. Sands in disgust, but she hated that she had to use her sexuality and pray that she receives what she wants. She realize that being a slave girl and a free woman were not on the same standards of morality. She had to forcefully use her woman's being to stray away from her being taken advantage of. The womb is the center of a woman's being an quite in fact very powerful.