Stephanie J Shaw

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What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow EraPaperback, 15 May 1996

What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era
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Part of Series
Women in Culture and Society
Part of Series
Women in Culture & Society (Paperback)
Print Length
364 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
15 May 1996
ISBN-10
0226751201
ISBN-13
9780226751207

Description

In a highly original study of women, race, and class, Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of 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 research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that made them exceptional, and of the choices and commitments that made them leaders in their communities. What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do brings to life a world in which African-American families, communities, and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative, and social responsibility of girls. Shaw shows us how, in a society that denied black women full professional status, these girls embraced and in turn defined an ideal of "socially responsible individualism" that balanced private and public sphere responsibilities. A collective portrait of character shaped in the toughest circumstances, this book is more than a study of the socialization of these women as children and the organization of their work as adults. It is also a study of leadership - of how African American communities gave their daughters the power to succeed in and change a hostile world.

Product Details

Author:
Stephanie J Shaw
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 May 1996
Dimensions:
22.68 x 15.29 x 2.08 cm
ISBN-10:
0226751201
ISBN-13:
9780226751207
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
364
Weight:
494.42 gm

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