The Black woman cross-culturally : None : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

ix, 645 pages : 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-635)

The black woman cross-culturally: an overview / Filomina Chioma Steady -- Africa. Female employment and family organization in West Africa / Niara Sudarkasa ; Asante queen mothers in government and politics in the nineteenth century / Agnes Akosua Aidoo ; Women's political participation Nigeria / Kamene Okonjo ; Tanzanian women in nation building / Joyce Ladner ; The role of women in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau / Stephanie Urdang ; The African woman as entrepreneur: problems and perspectives on their roles / Ruth Simms ; The second sex in town / Josef Gugler ; Women in indigenous African cults and churches / Benetta Jules-Rosette ; Definitions of women and development: an African perspective / Achola O. Pala ; The black woman in South Africa: an Azanian profile / Elizabeth Thaele Rivkin ; The role of women in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa / Richard E. Lapchik

United States of America. Racism and traditions: black womanhood in historical perspective / Joyce A. Ladner ; Female slave resistance: the economics of sex / Darlene Clark Hine and Kate Wittenstein ; Discrimination against Afro-American women in the woman's movement, 1830-1920 / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn ; Black women and racial "uplift" prior to emancipation / Linda Perkins ; The myth of the black matriarchy / Robert Staples ; Sex roles and survival strategies in the urban black community / Carol B. Stack ; The incarcerated black female: the case of social double jeopardy / Laurence French ; Black women and music: a survey from Africa to the New World / Irene V. Jackson-Brown ; Images of black women in Afro-American poetry / Andrea Benton Rushing -- Caribbean. Household and family in the Caribbean: some definitions and concepts / Nancie Solien Gonzalez ; Women's role in West Indian society / Joyce Bennett Justus

Black women and survival: a Maroon case / Kenneth Bilby and Filomina Chioma Steady ; Social inequality and sexual status in Barbados / Constance Sutton and Susan Makiesky-Barrow ; Female status, the family, and male dominance in a West Indian community / Yolanda T. Moses ; Economic role and cultural tradition / Sidney W. Mintz ; The black woman in Haitian society and literature / Regine Latortue -- South America. West Indian characteristics of the Black Carib / Nancie Solien Gonzalez ; The spread of capitalism in rural Colombia: effects on poor women / Ann Rubbo ; Images of the woman of color in Brazilian literature: O Cortico, Clara Dos Anjos, Gabriela Cravo E Canela, and O Quinze / Maria Luisa Nunes