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

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.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Colección:Women in culture and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
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