| Description |
1 online resource (365 pages) |
| Series |
Women in Culture and Society Series |
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Women in culture and society.
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| Contents |
CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 WHAT A WOMAN OUGHT TO BE; 1. "Aim always to attain excellence in character and culture": Child-rearing strategies; 2. "The daughters of our community coming up": Developing community consciousness; 3. "We are not educating individuals but manufacturing levers": Schooling reinforcements; Epilogue to Part 1; PART 2 WHAT A WOMAN OUGHT TO DO; Prologue to Part 2; 4. "I am teaching school here ... [but] I find it rather hard ... with my housekeeping": Private sphere work |
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5. "It was time ... that we should be members": Personal professional work6. "Working for my race in one way or another ever since I was a grown woman": Public sphere work; Conclusion; Appendix: Biographical sketches; Abbreviations and Sources; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that m |
| Analysis |
jim crow, race, racism, professionalism, black women, gender, workers, labor, femininity, empowerment, social worker, librarian, nursing, teachers, leadership, community, nonfiction, history, confidence, initiative, ambition, success, responsibility, individualism, duty, excellence, parenting, child rearing, girls, domesticity, public sphere, professions, character |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African American women in the professions -- History
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African American women in the professions
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226751306 |
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0226751309 |
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