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Book SynopsisThe contributorsâall women of colorâpresent their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles. What the Village Gave Me touches upon careers, relationships, ethnic identity, and cultural representation. This collection will help readres see how race, class, and ethnicity work to divide or unite women.
Table of ContentsPreface Foreword Acknowledgments Section 1: Navigating Troubled Waters: Doing Womanhood in Work Life 1. Learning to Swim with the Barracudas: Negotiating Differences in the Workplace Nia I. Cantey 2. Mammies, Maids &Mothers: Representations of African-American and Latina Women’s Reproductive Labor in Weeds Johnanna Ganz 3. Being Black Academic Mothers Angela K. Lewis, Sherri L. Wallace, and Clarissa L. Peterson Section 2: Too Grown for Your Own Good: Doing Girlhood 4. Combing My Kinks: A Culturally Informed Program to Strengthen Mother-Daughter Relationships Marva L. Lewis and Allisyn L. Swift 5. The ABCs of Doing Gender: Culturally Situated Non-Cognitive Factors & African American Girls LaShawnda Lindsay-Dennis and Lawanda Cummings 6. Learning Black Womanhood: An Autoethnography Denise Davis-Maye Section 3: Turpentine, Sugar, and Pot Liquor: Black Women and Everyday Health 7. Growing Up Black and Female: Life Course Transitions and Depressive Symptoms Claire Norris and Paige Miller 8. Saving My Soul and Making Me Fat?: Black Mothers and the Church Annice Dale Yarber Section 4: Speaking Change and Writing Wrongs: Representations of Activism 9. The Art of Activist Mothering: Black Feminist Leadership & Knowing What to Do Denise McLane-Davison 10. What Mami Taught Me about Empire Elizabeth Huergo
