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Product Identifiers
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-10081353061X
ISBN-139780813530611
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038712285
Product Key Features
Book TitleSister Circle : Black Women and Work
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicAmerican / African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Literary Collections
AuthorSharon Harley
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2001-048613
Reviews Sister Circle offers a powerful evocation connecting the personal experiences of Black women scholars to the historical struggles of Black women workers.
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Dewey Decimal331.4/089/96073
Table Of ContentForeword Nellie McKay Preface: Sisters in a Circle Acknowledgments Introduction: Historical Overview of Black Women and Work Sharon Harley Francille Rusan Wilson Shirley Wilson Logan Part 1 - Work It Sista! The Black Side of the Mirror: The Black Body in the Workplace Taunya Lovell Banks Flying the Love Bird and Other Tourist Jobs in Jamaica: Women Workers in Negril A. Lynn Bolles "Working for Nothing but for a Living": Black Women in the Underground Economy Sharon Harley Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Mothering, Work, and Welfare in the Rural South Bonnie Thornton Dill Tallese Johnson Getting Paid: Black Women Economists Reflect on Women and Work Rhonda M. Williams Part 2 - Foremothers: The Shoulders on Which We Stand "Don't Let Nobody Bother Yo' Principle": The Sexual Economy of American Slavery Adrienne Davis "And We Claim Our Rights": The Rights Rhetoric of Black and White Women Activists before the Civil War Carla L. Peterson "What Are We Worth": Anna Julia Cooper Defines Black Women's Work at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Shirley Wilson Logan "All of the Glory... Faded... Quickly": Sadie T.M. Alexander and Black Professional Women, 1920-1950 Francille Rusan Wilson A Sister in the Brotherhood: Rosina Corrothers Tucker and the Sleeping Car Porters, 1930-1950 Melinda Chateauvert Part 3 - Women's Work through the Artist's Eyes Declaring (Ambiguous) Liberty: Paule Marshall's Middle-Class Women Mary Helen Washington Searching for Memories: Visualizing My Art and Our Work Deborah Willis Part 4 - Detours on the Road to Work: Blessings in Disguise Labor above and beyond the Call: A Black Woman Scholar in the Academy Marilyn Mobley McKenzie When the Spirit Takes Hold, What the Work Becomes! Judi Moore Latta About the Contributors Index
SynopsisAlthough black women?s labor was essential to the development of the United States, studies of these workers have lagged far behind those of working black men and white women. Adding insult to injury, a stream of images in film, television, magazines, and music continues to portray the work of black women in a negative light. Sister Circle offers an innovative approach to representing work in the lives of black women. Contributors from many fields explore an array of lives and activities, allowing us to see for the first time the importance of black women?s labor in the aftermath of slavery. A brand new light is shed on black women?s roles in the tourism industry, as nineteenth-century social activists, as labor leaders, as working single mothers, as visual artists, as authors and media figures, as church workers, and in many other fields. A unique feature of the book is that each contributor provides an autobiographical statement, connecting her own life history to the subject she surveys. The first group of essays, ?Work It Sista!? identifies the sites of black women?s paid and unpaid work. In ?Foremothers: The Shoulders on Which We Stand,? contributors look to the past for the different kinds of work that black women have performed over the last two centuries. Essays in ?Women?s Work through the Artist?s Eyes? highlight black women?s work in literature, drama, and the visual arts. The collection concludes with ?Detours on the Road to Work: Blessings in Disguise,? writings surveying connections between black women?s personal and professional lives., Although black women's labor was essential to the development of the United States, studies of these workers have lagged far behind those of working black men and white women. Adding insult to injury, a stream of images in film, television, magazines, and music continues to portray the work of black women in a negative light. Sister Circle offers an innovative approach to representing work in the lives of black women. Contributors from many fields explore an array of lives and activities, allowing us to see for the first time the importance of black women's labor in the aftermath of slavery. A brand new light is shed on black women's roles in the tourism industry, as nineteenth-century social activists, as labor leaders, as working single mothers, as visual artists, as authors and media figures, as church workers, and in many other fields. A unique feature of the book is that each contributor provides an autobiographical statement, connecting her own life history to the subject she surveys. The first group of essays, "Work It Sista!" identifies the sites of black women's paid and unpaid work. In "Foremothers: The Shoulders on Which We Stand," contributors look to the past for the different kinds of work that black women have performed over the last two centuries. Essays in "Women's Work through the Artist's Eyes" highlight black women's work in literature, drama, and the visual arts. The collection concludes with "Detours on the Road to Work: Blessings in Disguise," writings surveying connections between black women's personal and professional lives., Sister Circle offers an innovative approach to representing work in the lives of black women. Contributors from many fields explore an array of lives and activities, allowing us to see for the first time the importance of black women's labor in the aftermath of slavery. A brand new light is shed on black women's roles in the tourism industry, as nineteenth-century social activists, as labor leaders, as working single mothers, as visual artists, as authors and media figures, as church workers, and in many other fields., Although black women's labor was essential to the development of the United States, studies of these workers have lagged far behind those of working black men and white women. Adding insult to injury, a stream of images in film, television, magazines, and music continues to portray the work of black women in a negative light. Sister Circle offers an innovative approach to representing work in the lives of black women. Contributors from many fields explore an array of lives and activities, allowing us to see for the first time the importance of black women's labor in the aftermath of slavery. A brand new light is shed on black women's roles in the tourism industry, as nineteenth-century social activists, as labor leaders, as working single mothers, as visual artists, as authors and media figures, as church workers, and in many other fields. A unique feature of the book is that each contributor provides an autobiographical statement, connecting her own life history to the subject she surveys. The first group of essays, "Work It Sista " identifies the sites of black women's paid and unpaid work. In "Foremothers: The Shoulders on Which We Stand," contributors look to the past for the different kinds of work that black women have performed over the last two centuries. Essays in "Women's Work through the Artist's Eyes" highlight black women's work in literature, drama, and the visual arts. The collection concludes with "Detours on the Road to Work: Blessings in Disguise," writings surveying connections between black women's personal and professional lives.
LC Classification NumberHD6057
