What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era
364 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1995
Contents
Foreword, by Catharine R. Stimpson
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: What a Woman Ought to Be
1. "Aim always to attain excellence in character and culture": Child-rearing strategies
2. "The daughters of our community coming up": Developing community consciousness
3. "We are not educating individuals but manufacturing levers": Schooling reinforcements
Epilogue to Part 1
Part 2: What a Woman Ought to Do
Prologue to Part 2
4. "I am teaching school here . . . [but] I find it rather hard . . . with my housekeeping": Private sphere work
5. "It was time . . . that we should be members": Personal professional work
6. "Working for my race in one way or another ever since I was a grown woman.": Public sphere work
Conclusion
Appendix: Biographical sketches
Abbreviations and Sources
Notes
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: What a Woman Ought to Be
1. "Aim always to attain excellence in character and culture": Child-rearing strategies
2. "The daughters of our community coming up": Developing community consciousness
3. "We are not educating individuals but manufacturing levers": Schooling reinforcements
Epilogue to Part 1
Part 2: What a Woman Ought to Do
Prologue to Part 2
4. "I am teaching school here . . . [but] I find it rather hard . . . with my housekeeping": Private sphere work
5. "It was time . . . that we should be members": Personal professional work
6. "Working for my race in one way or another ever since I was a grown woman.": Public sphere work
Conclusion
Appendix: Biographical sketches
Abbreviations and Sources
Notes
Index
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