This work explores how race, ethnicity and social class shape the working lives, working conditions and wages of women from non-white, non-citizen or working-class backgrounds. The contributors address such topics as : the abilities of these women to control their work environments; the self-view of these women and their options in the work place; the integration of work and family; women's vision of their own work and consciousness as employees; and women's resistance to exploitative and limiting work.
Oral narrative researchers from a range of disciplines present their personal portraits on the methodological strategies they have found useful in bringing the experiences of African and African American women into full view. The contributors explore: how new information about African women is being created; the strengths of oral narrative research for expanding and transforming knowledge about Black women; and how carrying out oral history research has affected the researchers' personal and professional lives.
Incorporating descriptions by mothers and daughters about their relationships, this book addresses both the rewards and the difficulties mothers and daughters experience in maintaining their relationships into old age. It is based on interviews with 48 mothers over age 70 and their adult daughters.
The Transformation of the Academic Community in Nineteenth-Century America
Illuminates larger issues in the history of American education - professionalization, alumni demands for a voice in the governance of colleges and universities, and the growth of the indirect power of students and faculty.
Women, Power, and Dissent in the Hills of Carolina is a unique and impassioned exploration of gender, labor, and resistance in western North Carolina. Based on eight months of field research in a mica manufacturing plant and the surrounding rural community, as well as oral histories of women who worked in mica houses in the early twentieth ......
Drawing on his ethnographic research in rural areas of Kentucky, the author of this book presents a thorough look at the experiences of battered women in rural communities. Neil Websdale demonstrates how rural patriarchy and an insidious `ol' boy's network' of law enforcement and local politics sustains, reproduces and transforms the subordinate, ......
Models of Strength for Challenges through the Life Span
Spiritual Resiliency In Older Women records the narratives of spiritually resilient older German and American women. The authors suggest how persons of all ages can gain maturity and spiritual coping by participating in communities based on faith, which acknowledge the emotion of spiritual experiences and integrate faith and close human ......
Through moving oral histories, Ji-Yeon Yuh tells an important, at times heartbreaking, story of Korean military brides. She takes us beyond the stereotypes and reveals their roles within their families, communities, and Korean immigration to the U.S.
