The Black woman cross-culturally / edited by Filomina Chioma Steady.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steady, Filomina Chioma, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black--Africa.

Women, Black.

Women, Black--Caribbean Area.

Women, Black--Latin America.

African American women.

Latin America.

Caribbean Area.

Africa.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 645 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc., 1981.

Contents:

Introduction

The Black Woman Cross-Culturally: An overview / Filomina Chioma Steady

Part I: Africa. Introduction. Female employment and family organization in West Africa / Niara Sudarkasa; Asante Queen Mothers in government and politics in the nineteenth century / Agnes Ahosua Aidoo; Women's political participation Nigeria/ Kamene Okonjo; Tanzanian women in nation building / Joyce Ladner; The role of women in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau / Stephanie Urdang; The African woman as entrepeneur: problems and perspectives on their roles / Ruth Simms; The second sex in town / Josef Gugler; Women in indigenous African cults and churches / Benetta Jules-Rosette; Definitions of women and development: an African perspective / Achola O. Pala; The Black woman in South Africa: an Azanian profile / Elizabeth Thaele Rivkin; The role of women in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa / Richard E. Lapchik

Part II: United States of America. Introduction. Racism and tradition: Black womanhood in historical perspective / Joyce A. Ladner; Female slave resistance: the economics of sex / Darlene Clark Hine and Kate Wittenstein; Discrimination against Afro-American women in the Woman's Movement, 1830-1920 / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn; Black women and racial "uplift" prior to Emancipation / Linda Perkins; The myth of the Black Matriarchy / Robert Staples; Sex roles and survival strategies in the urban black community / Carol B. Stack; The incarcerated black female: the case of social double jeopardy / Laurence French; Black women and music: a survey from Africa to the New World / Irene V. Jackson-Brown; Images of black women in Afro-American poetry / Andrea Benton Rushing

Part III: Caribbean. Introduction. Household and family in the Caribbean: some definitions and concepts / Nancie Solien Gonzalez; Women's role in West Indian society / Joyce Bennett Justus; Black women and survival: a maroon case / Kenneth Bilby and Filomina Chioma Steady; Social inequality and sexual status in Barbados / Constance Sutton and Susan Makiesky-Barrow; Female status, the family, and male dominance in a West Indian community / Yolanda T. Moses; Economic role and cultural tradition / Sidney W. Mintz; The Black woman in Haitian society and literature / Regime Latortue

Part IV: South America. Introduction. West Indian characteristics of the Black Carib / Nancie Solien Gonzalez; The spread of capitalism in rural Colombia: effects on poor women / Ann Rubbo; Images of the woman of color in Brazilian Literature: O Cortico, Clara Dos Anjos, Gabriela Cravo E. Canela, and O. Quinze / Maria Luisa Nunes.

Notes:

"This anthology brings together for the first time in a cross-cultural perspective a body of relevant but previously fragmented and scattered literature on the black woman."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-635).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".

ISBN:

0870733451 :

087073346X

OCLC:

6421765