What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do : Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, Stephanie J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Colección:Women in Culture and Society
Temas:
African American women in the professions > History.
United States > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE. 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 TWO. 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
  • 5. "It was time ... that we should be members": Personal professional work
  • 6. "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

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