What the Village Gave Me

Conceptualizations of Womanhood
Herausgeber: Davis-Maye, Denise; Perry, Tonya E.; Dale Yarber, Annice

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Produktbeschreibung

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 readres see how race, class, and ethnicity work to divide or unite women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780761861973
• ISBN-10: 0761861971
• Artikelnr.: 39676453

Autorenporträt

Denise Davis-Maye, PhD, is a licensed clinical social worker. An alumna of Clark Atlanta University with over twenty-three years of social work practice experience, Davis-Maye is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. Her research interests include the cultural, community, and familial impact on the emotional development of adolescent girls of African descent and the well-being, contributions, and roles of women of color. Annice Dale Yarber, PhD, is an associate professor of sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. After serving twenty years as a social worker in the areas of substance abuse counseling and administration, she earned a PhD in medical sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a master's degree in social work from the University of Alabama. Her research interests include family, gender, and health. Dale Yarber co-edited Focus on Single Parent Families: Past, Present, and Future. Tonya E. Perry, PhD, is a professor of social work at Alabama A & M University. She has more than twenty years of graduate teaching experience and is a former Johns Hopkins International AIDS Research Fellow and Fulbright-Hays Scholar. Perry's research interests include socio-cultural issues related to the impact of HIV/AIDS, the health conditions of women of African ancestry, and the impact of development upon the status of women.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Foreword Acknowledgments 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
Angela K. Lewis, Sherri L. Wallace, and 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 Marva L. Lewis
and Allisyn L. Swift 5. The ABCs of Doing Gender: Culturally Situated
Non-Cognitive Factors & African American Girls LaShawnda Lindsay-Dennis and
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 Claire Norris and Paige Miller 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 10. What Mami Taught Me about Empire Elizabeth Huergo