Aphrodite's DaughtersThe Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodites Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American womenAngelina Weld Grimk, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V.