| Contents |
African-American women's quilting : a framework for conceptualizing and teaching African-American women's history / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Onbeing the object of property / Patricia J. Williams -- A response to inequality : Black women, racism, and sexism / Diane K. Lewis -- The dialectics of Black womanhood / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Family roles, occupational statuses, and achievement orientations among Black women in the United States / Walter R. Allen -- The economic fortunes of women and children : lessons from the panel study of income dynamics / Mary Corcoran, Greg J. Duncan, and Martha S. Hill -- Exploding the myth of African-American progress / James A. Geschwender and Rita Carroll-Seguin. |
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Slavery, sharecropping, and sexual inequality / Susan A. Mann -- For the good of family and race : gender, work, and domestic roles in the Black community, 1880-1930 / Sharon Harley -- Womanist consciousness : Maggie Lena Walker and the independent order of Saint Luke / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Black matrilineage : the case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston / Dianne F. Sadoff -- "Together and in harness" : women's traditions in the sanctified church / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Family, race, and poverty in the eighties / Maxine Baca Zinn -- Multiple jeopardy, multiple consciousness : the context of a Black feminist ideology / Deborah K. King -- The social construction of Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins. |
| Local note | Little-297824--305131003951V |
| General note | Essays originally published 1977-1990 in Signs: journal of women in culture and society. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 89049110 |
| ISBN | 0226502953 (alk. paper) : |
| ISBN | 0226502961 (pbk. : alk. paper) : |
