This stimulating volume challenges the tendency to represent African-American women's experiences as a monolithic whole. The interdisciplinary approach organized around the theme of activism enables an unusual and inventive selection of topics to be presented. The history, culture, sociology and psychology of black women are richly represented.
This stimulating volume challenges the tendency to represent African-American women's experiences as a monolithic whole. The interdisciplinary approac...
This stimulating volume challenges the tendency to represent African-American women's experiences as a monolithic whole. The interdisciplinary approach organized around the theme of activism enables an unusual and inventive selection of topics to be presented. The history, culture, sociology and psychology of black women are richly represented.
This stimulating volume challenges the tendency to represent African-American women's experiences as a monolithic whole. The interdisciplinary approac...
Oral narrative researchers present portraits on the strategies of bringing the experiences of African and African American women into view. They explore how new information about African women is being created and the strengths of oral research for expanding knowledge about Black women.
Oral narrative researchers present portraits on the strategies of bringing the experiences of African and African American women into view. They explo...
Presents the life history of Nike Davies, one of the few African women known nationally and internationally in contemporary art circles. In addition, this book illustrates strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule and presents a critique of women's place in contemporary Yaruba society.
Presents the life history of Nike Davies, one of the few African women known nationally and internationally in contemporary art circles. In addition, ...
Presents the life history of Nike Davies, one of the few African women known nationally and internationally in contemporary art circles. In addition, this book illustrates strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule and presents a critique of women's place in contemporary Yaruba society.
Presents the life history of Nike Davies, one of the few African women known nationally and internationally in contemporary art circles. In addition, ...
One of the first women's organizations to "mask" in a Mardi Gras parade, the "Million Dollar Baby Dolls" redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition. Tracing their origins from Storyville brothels and dance halls to their re-emergence in post-Katrina New Orleans, author Kim Vaz uncovers the fascinating history of the "raddy-walking, shake-dancing, cigar-smoking, money-flinging" ladies that strutted their way into a predominantly male establishment. The Baby Dolls formed around 1912 as an organization for African American women who used their profits from working in New Orleans's red-light...
One of the first women's organizations to "mask" in a Mardi Gras parade, the "Million Dollar Baby Dolls" redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition....
Women s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through consolidation, and at worst, academic foreclosure. Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads articulates a politics of commitment, hope, and possibility wrought in the coming-together of a group of feminist women and men across racial, cultural, nation/state, sexual, and gender differences during a tough...
Women s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reducti...
