| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Section 1 Navigating Troubled Waters: Doing Womanhood in Work Life -- 1. Learning to Swim with the Barracudas: Negotiating Differences in the Workplace / Nia I. Cantey -- 2. Mammies, Maids & Mothers: Representations of African-American and Latina Women's Reproductive Labor in Weeds / Johnanna Ganz -- 3. Being Black Academic Mothers / Clarissa L. Peterson -- Section 2 Too Grown for Your Own Good: Doing Girlhood -- 4.Combing My Kinks: A Culturally Informed Program to Strengthen Mother-Daughter Relationships / Allisyn L. Swift -- 5. The ABCs of Doing Gender: Culturally Situated Non-Cognitive Factors & African American Girls / Lawanda Cummings -- 6. Learning Black Womanhood: An Autoethnography / Denise Davis-Maye -- Section 3 Turpentine, Sugar, and Pot Liquor: Black Women and Everyday Health -- 7. Growing Up Black and Female: Life Course Transitions and Depressive Symptoms / Paige Miller |
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8. Saving My Soul and Making Me Fat?: Black Mothers and the Church / Annice Dale Yarber -- Section 4 Speaking Change and Writing Wrongs: Representations of Activism -- 9. The Art of Activist Mothering: Black Feminist Leadership & Knowing What to Do / Denise McLane-Davison |
| 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 readers see how race, class, and ethnicity work to divide or unite women |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Minority women -- United States -- Social conditions
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Minority women -- Social conditions
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306171105 |
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9781306171106 |
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9780761861980 |
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076186198X |
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