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Explores the world of American Black professional women in a society that denied them full professional status. Shaw shows how, in spite of this, African-American families, communities and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative and social responsibility of girls.

What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do

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    A Paperback / softback by Stephanie J. Shaw

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/05/1996
      ISBN13: 9780226751207, 978-0226751207
      ISBN10: 0226751201

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      Book Synopsis
      Explores the world of American Black professional women in a society that denied them full professional status. Shaw shows how, in spite of this, African-American families, communities and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative and social responsibility of girls.

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