Women in Cotton comes to Harlem

In all of the pieces of literature and movies we have examined this semester (with the exception of Queenpin) the female characters and femme fatales have portrayed as relatively conservative in both their dress and behavior. Even though a greedy cheating housewife in the 1940s/50s was considered to be the opposite of cultural norms for women, their depictions are hardly as lewd and their behavior is hardly as aggressive than the women who are portrayed in Cotton Comes to Harlem. Himes' descriptions of (almost ) sex scene are much more vivid than anything  we have seen in previous novels or movies. Maybe this was done because Himes was trying to exaggerate stereotypes to make the story more unbelievable or he was just into that type of stuff. But no other piece of work used the phrase "jiggling buttocks" multiple times to describe the actions of their femalescharacters.