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The Black woman in America: sex, marriage, and the family / by Robert Staples.
LIBRA E185.86 .S72
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LIBRA - Rare E185.86 .S72 1973 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Staples, Robert.
- Series:
- Professional-technical series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 269 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Nelson-Hall Publishers [1973]
- Contents:
- Foreword / Dr. Joyce Ladner
- Introduction
- Black Womanhood: Myth and Reality
- The Sexual Life of Black Women
- Bodies for Sale: Black Prostitutes in White America
- Being Married-and Black
- The Joy and Pain of Motherhood
- Black Women and Women's Liberation
- Voices of Black Womanhood
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "Reprinted 1974, 1976."
- "Jacket design: R. Wax."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is "1976" reprint.
- ISBN:
- 0911012559 (cloth
- OCLC:
- 658171
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