| Description |
xxv, 450 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 427-435. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Commonalities and differences / Johnetta B. Cole -- Part I : Work -- Jesusita Novaro / Studs Terkel -- Aunt Katherine Haynes / Studs Terkel -- "With respect and feelings" : voices of West Indian child care and domestic workers in New York City / Shellee Colen -- A pink-collar worker's blues / Karen Kenyon -- Shoulder to shoulder / Anne Braden -- Economic independence and social responsibility : the world of upper-middle-class American women / Elizabeth Oakes -- With silk wings : Asian American women at work / Elaine H. Kim -- Working at gettin' yourself an education / Louise te Boekhorst -- Part II : Families -- The problem that has no name / Betty Friedan -- End of the beginning / Betty Friedan -- Kathy Alarid / Nan Elasser, Kyle MacKenzie, and Yvonne Tixier y Vigil -- Man child : a black lesbian feminist's response / Audre Lorde -- Wives / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Puerto Rican elderly women : shared meanings and informal supportive networks / Melba Sánchez-Ayéndez -- Societal stress : the black family / Harriette P. McAdoo -- Jewish women in the nuclear family and beyond / Susan Weidman Schneider -- Out of the stream : an essay on unconventional motherhood / Shirley Globka -- Part III : Sexuality and reproduction -- Racism, birth control and reproductive rights / Angela Y. Davis -- The marriage bed / Lillian Breslow Rubin -- Cultural and historical influences on sexuality in Hispanic/Latin women / Olivia M. Espín -- Styling, profiling, and pretending : the games before the fall / Gloria I. Joseph -- The sympathy of the blood / Amber Hollibaugh -- Part IV : Religion -- Opposing the rape of Mother Earth / Judith Todd -- "Born again" / Anne Bowen Follis -- The white ethnic Catholic woman / Barbara Mikulski -- On being a Jewish feminist / Susannah Heschel -- Why women need the goddess : phenomenological, psychological, and political reflections / Carol P. Christ -- Black women and the church / Jacquelyn Grant -- Part V : Politics -- The 1984 campaign and the women's movement : where do we go from here? / Geraldine Ferraro -- Violence agianst women / Barbara Sinclair Deckard -- All things are possible / Yvonne Duffy -- Broken hips / Rosette Capotorto and Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy -- Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing Native American women / Paula Gunn Allen -- Black lesbian/feminist organizing : a conversation / Barbara Smith -- Are you a liberated woman? : Feminism, revolution and Asian American women / Sasha Hohri -- Suggested readings / A. Lynn Bolles |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women -- United States -- Economic conditions.
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Feminism -- United States.
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Women -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Minority women -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Cole, Johnnetta B.
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| ISBN |
0029064600 paperback |
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