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What the village gave me : conceptualizations of womanhood / edited by Denise Davis-Maye, Annice Dale Yarber, Tonya E. Perry ; cover artwork by Aaron Fraze.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minority women--United States--Social conditions.
- Minority women.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Feminism--United States--History.
- Feminism.
- Sex role.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : University Press of America, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contributors-all women of color-present their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles. What the Village Gave Me touches upon careers, relationships, ethnic identity, and cultural representation. This collection will help readres see how race, class, and ethnicity work to divide or unite women.
- Contents:
- WHAT THE VILLAGE GAVE ME; CONTENTS; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Section 1: Navigating Troubled Waters: Doing Womanhood in Work Life; 1. Learning to Swim with the Barracudas: Negotiating Differences in the Workplace; 2. Mammies, Maids &Mothers: Representations of African-American and Latina Women's Reproductive Labor in Weeds; 3. Being Black Academic Mothers; Section 2: Too Grown for Your Own Good: Doing Girlhood; 4. Combing My Kinks: A Culturally Informed Program to Strengthen Mother-Daughter Relationships
- 5. The ABCs of Doing Gender: Culturally Situated Non-Cognitive Factors & African American Girls6. Learning Black Womanhood: An Autoethnography; Section 3: Turpentine, Sugar, and Pot Liquor: Black Women and Everyday Health; 7. Growing Up Black and Female: Life Course Transitions and Depressive Symptoms; 8. Saving My Soul and Making Me Fat?: Black Mothers and the Church; Section 4: Speaking Change and Writing Wrongs: Representations of Activism; 9. The Art of Activist Mothering: Black Feminist Leadership & Knowing What to Do; 10. What Mami Taught Me about Empire
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-6198-X
- OCLC:
- 864745201
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