Screen LibraryChanging woman : a history of racial ethnic women in modern America /
While great strides have been made in documenting the historical experiences and actions of middle-class white women in United States, scholarship on racial ethnic women has begun to appear only in recent years as women of color and other scholars have broadened the base of inquiry in women's h...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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While great strides have been made in documenting the historical experiences and actions of middle-class white women in United States, scholarship on racial ethnic women has begun to appear only in recent years as women of color and other scholars have broadened the base of inquiry in women's history. Without a window into the lives of racial ethnic women our understanding of the meanings and dynamics of various forms of social inequality will be woefully inadequate. Now, in this illuminating volume, Karen Anderson offers the first book to examine the lives of women from three important ethn |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 291 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-284) and index. |
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9780195117882 : 0195117883 |
| Index Number: | E184 |
| CLC: | D771.286.8 |
| Call Number: | D771.286.8/A547 |
| Contents: | 1. "Changing Woman" and the Politics of Difference -- 2. American Indian Women and Cultural Conflict -- 3. An Expensive Luxury: Women, Civilization, and Resistance, 1887-1934 -- 4. From the Indian New Deal to Red Power: Women, "Self-Determination," and Power -- 5. Mexicanas: The Immigrant Experience, 1900-1950 -- 6. Border Women: Gender, Culture, and Power in Mexican American Communities from 1950 to the Present -- 7. In the Shadow of the Plantation: African American Women, 1865-1940 -- 8. Progress and Protest: African American Women Since 1940. |