| Description |
vii, 291 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. "Changing Woman" and the Politics of Difference -- 2. American Indian Women and Cultural Conflict -- 3. An Expensive Luxury: Women, Civilization, and Resistance, 1887-1934 -- 4. From the Indian New Deal to Red Power: Women, "Self-Determination," and Power -- 5. Mexicanas: The Immigrant Experience, 1900-1950 -- 6. Border Women: Gender, Culture, and Power in Mexican American Communities from 1950 to the Present -- 7. In the Shadow of the Plantation: African American Women, 1865-1940 -- 8. Progress and Protest: African American Women Since 1940 |
| Summary |
While great strides have been made in documenting the historical experiences and actions of middle-class white women in United States, scholarship on racial ethnic women has begun to appear only in recent years as women of color and other scholars have broadened the base of inquiry in women's history. Without a window into the lives of racial ethnic women our understanding of the meanings and dynamics of various forms of social inequality will be woefully inadequate. Now, in this illuminating volume, Karen Anderson offers the first book to examine the lives of women from three important ethnic groups in the United States - Native American, Mexican American, and African American women - revealing the specificities and commonalities of their experiences. Changing Woman provides the first comparative history of women from these racial ethnic groups, explaining changes in the sources and nature of the oppressions in their lives and tracing their progress over time |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-284) and index |
| Subject |
African American women.
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Indian women -- United States.
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Mexican American women.
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Minority women -- United States.
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| LC no. |
95021250 |
| ISBN |
0195054628 (alk. paper) |
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