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Author : Christine Oppong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Mothers, Workers and Wives written by Christine Oppong and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gwendolyn Mikell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200772
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book African Feminism written by Gwendolyn Mikell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with "bread, butter, and power" issues. Contributors present case studies of ten African states, demonstrating that—as they fight for access to land, for the right to own property, for control of food distribution, for living wages and safe working conditions, for health care, and for election reform—African women are creating a powerful and specifically African feminism.
Author : Bart Landry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520929692
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Black Working Wives written by Bart Landry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the 1970s and the feminist revolution that shattered traditional notions of the family, black women in America had already accomplished their own revolution. Bart Landry's groundbreaking study adds immeasurably to our accepted concepts of "traditional" and "new" families: Landry argues that black middle-class women in two-parent families were practicing an egalitarian lifestyle that was envisioned by few of their white counterparts until many decades later. The primary transformation of the American family, Landry says, took place when nineteenth-century industrialization brought about the separation of home and workplace. Only then did the family we call traditional, in which the husband goes out to work while the wife stays at home, become the centerpiece of white middle-class ideology. Black women, excluded from this model of respectability, embraced a threefold commitment to family, community, and career. They embodied the notion that employment outside the home was the route to more equality in the home, and that work was worth pursuing for reasons other than economic survival. With a careful and convincing mix of biography, historical records, and demographic data, Landry shows how these black pioneers of the dual-career marriage created a paradigm for other women seeking to escape the cult of domesticity and thus foreshadowed the second great family transformation. If the two-parent nuclear family is to persist beyond the twentieth century, it may be because of what we can learn from these earlier women about an ideology of womanhood that combines the private and public spheres.
Author : Tera W. Hunter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674893085
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (748 download)
Download or read book To ÕJoy My Freedom written by Tera W. Hunter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta--the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south--in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception--and at the heart--of the new south.
Author : Minna Salami
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 178699528X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Sensuous Knowledge written by Minna Salami and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of a social critic, the book pries apart the systems of power and privilege that have dominated ways of thinking for centuries – and which have led to so much division, prejudice and damage. And it puts forward a new, sensuous, approach to knowledge: one grounded in a host of global perspectives – from Black Feminism to personal narrative, pop culture to high art, Western philosophy to African mythology – together comprising a vision of hope for a fragmented world riven by crisis. Through the prism of this new knowledge, Salami offers fresh insights into the key cultural issues that affect women’s lives. How are we to view Sisterhood, Motherhood or even Womanhood itself? What is Power and why do we conceive of Beauty? How does one achieve Liberation? She asks women to break free of the prison made by ingrained male-centric biases, and build a house themselves – a home that can nurture us all. Sensuous Knowledge confirms Minna Salami as one the most important spokespeople of today, and the arrival of a blistering new literary voice.
Author : Odile Frank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Childbearing Family in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Odile Frank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa has not joined the global demographic transition. Africa's eventual transition to fertility decline may depend more than it has elsewhere on functional changes in the family and changes in the family structure.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221092018
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Women Workers written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced from the LABORDOC database, lists 953 English-language publications, technical reports, working papers and other documents, produced at ILO headquarters or in ILO field offices, or prepared in connection with ILO programmes.
Author : Elizabeth Higginbotham
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452246645
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Women and Work written by Elizabeth Higginbotham and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original research articles explores how race, ethnicity, and social class have shaped the work lives of women. Women and Work explores womenÆs working conditions, their wages and salaries, their abilities to control their work environments, and how they see themselves and their options in the workplace. A great deal of importance is given to women of color, non-citizens, and working-class womenùgroups that are often neglected in other treatments of this subject. The integration of work and family, womenÆs vision of their own work and consciousness as employees, and womenÆs resistance to exploitative and limiting work are themes are also addressed throughout this book. Written by and interdisciplinary group of women scholars, Women and Work will be of interest to faculty, researchers, and advanced students in the fields of sociology, organization studies, psychology, gender studies, womenÆs history, and economics.
Author : Emilie Stoltzfus
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807862320
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Citizen, Mother, Worker written by Emilie Stoltzfus and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, and many of them relied on federally funded child care programs. At the end of the war, working mothers vigorously protested the termination of child care subsidies. In Citizen, Mother, Worker, Emilie Stoltzfus traces grassroots activism and national and local policy debates concerning public funding of children's day care in the two decades after the end of World War II. Using events in Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; and the state of California, Stoltzfus identifies a prevailing belief among postwar policymakers that women could best serve the nation as homemakers. Although federal funding was briefly extended after the end of the war, grassroots campaigns for subsidized day care in Cleveland and Washington met with only limited success. In California, however, mothers asserted their importance to the state's economy as "productive citizens" and won a permanent, state-funded child care program. In addition, by the 1960s, federal child care funding gained new life as an alternative to cash aid for poor single mothers. These debates about the public's stake in what many viewed as a private matter help illuminate America's changing social, political, and fiscal priorities, as well as the meaning of female citizenship in the postwar period.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Special Labor Force Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Woloch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021786
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Women and the American Experience written by Nancy Woloch and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that women have played as agents of change. Moving women’s lives from the margins of history into the spotlight, the text draws links between women’s experience and traditional facets of history, such as colonization, industrialization, politics, and war. This new edition grapples with emerging themes and debates in the field. A new chapter covers the Civil War and emancipation. Discussions of current issues include the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on women’s health and work, the #MeToo movement, transgender activism, reproductive rights, and the ERA. Updated suggestions for further reading reinforce evolving trends in women’s history. Used often to shape college curricula and revised to include recent research, this book is designed to serve students, teachers, and general readers concerned with U.S. history and women’s past.
Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317378628
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Writers and Social Thought in Africa written by Wale Adebanwi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However, because writers are some of the continent’s finest social thinkers, they have produced – and continue to produce – works which constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought, and for constructing social theory, in and beyond the continent. This comprehensive collection examines the relationship between African literature and African social thought. It explores the evolution and aesthetics of social thought in African fiction, and African writers’ conceptions of power and authority, legitimacy, history and modernity, gender and sexuality, culture, epistemology, globalization, and change and continuity in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195148908
Total Pages : 2710 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History written by Bonnie G. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 2710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.
Author : Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113561119X
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Work and Family Handbook written by Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work and Family Handbook is a comprehensive edited volume, which reviews a wide range of disciplinary perspectives across the social sciences on the study of work-family relationships, theory, and methods. The changing demographics of the labor force has resulted in an expanded awareness and understanding of the intricate relations between work and family dimensions in people's lives. For the first time, the efforts of scholars working in multiple disciplines are organized together to provide a comprehensive overview of the perspectives and methods that have been applied to the study of work and family. In this book, the leading work-family scholars in the fields of social work, psychology, sociology, organizational behavior, human resource management, business, and other disciplines provide chapters that are both accessible and compelling. This book demonstrates how cross-disciplinary comparisons of perspective and method reveal new insights on the needs of working families, the challenges faced by those who study them, and how to formulate policy on their behalf.
Author : Aderanti Adepoju
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Gender, Work & Population in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Aderanti Adepoju and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Henry Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women of South Africa written by Thomas Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
