Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family RevolutionUniversity of California Press, 20/07/2000 - 273 páginas Long before the 1970s and the feminist revolution that shattered traditional notions of the family, black women in America had already accomplished their own revolution. Bart Landry's groundbreaking study adds immeasurably to our accepted concepts of "traditional" and "new" families: Landry argues that black middle-class women in two-parent families were practicing an egalitarian lifestyle that was envisioned by few of their white counterparts until many decades later. The primary transformation of the American family, Landry says, took place when nineteenth-century industrialization brought about the separation of home and workplace. Only then did the family we call traditional, in which the husband goes out to work while the wife stays at home, become the centerpiece of white middle-class ideology. Black women, excluded from this model of respectability, embraced a threefold commitment to family, community, and career. They embodied the notion that employment outside the home was the route to more equality in the home, and that work was worth pursuing for reasons other than economic survival. With a careful and convincing mix of biography, historical records, and demographic data, Landry shows how these black pioneers of the dual-career marriage created a paradigm for other women seeking to escape the cult of domesticity and thus foreshadowed the second great family transformation. If the two-parent nuclear family is to persist beyond the twentieth century, it may be because of what we can learn from these earlier women about an ideology of womanhood that combines the private and public spheres. |
Índice
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Black Families A Challenge to the Traditional Family Paradigm | 32 |
Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood | 56 |
The New Family Paradigm Takes Root and Spreads | 82 |
DualCareer Couples Prototypes of the Modern Family | 112 |
The Economic Contribution of Wives | 136 |
Husbands and Housework A Stalled Revolution? | 148 |
The Future of DualWorker Families | 164 |
Statistics on Family Households | 195 |
Supplementary Figures | 198 |
Logistic Regression Models | 204 |
Notes | 209 |
Bibliography | 241 |
Index | 255 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 219 - Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (New York: Bantam Books, 1984); Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class (New York: Random House, 1981).
Página 58 - I knelt down and kissed them, and poured forth a prayer to God for guidance and support in the perilous step I was about to take. As I passed the wreck of the old meeting house, where, before Nat Turner's time, the slaves had been allowed to meet for worship, I seemed to hear my father's voice come from it, bidding me not to tarry till I reached freedom or the grave.
Página 77 - As a general rule, a modest woman seldom desires any sexual gratification for herself. She submits to her husband, but only to please him ; and, but for the desire of maternity, would far rather be relieved...
Página 18 - In particular, the preceding discussion has indicated that scientific revolutions are here taken to be those non-cumulative developmental episodes in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one.
Página 59 - ... able to get off from work at least once a week — and sometimes oftener. This moral debasement is not at all times unknown to the white women in these homes. I know of more than one colored woman who was openly importuned by white women to become the mistresses of their white husbands, on the ground that they, the white wives, were afraid that, if their husbands did not associate with colored women, they would certainly do so with outside white women, and the white wives, for reasons which ought...
Página 60 - It is to break this silence, not by noisy protestations of what we are not, but by a dignified showing of what we are and hope to become that we are impelled to take this step, to make of this gathering an object lesson to the world.
Página 24 - Oh, young and lovely bride, watch well the first moments when your will conflicts with his to whom God and society have given the control. Reverence his wishes even when you do not his opinions.
Página 59 - It is a significant and shameful fact that I am constantly in receipt of letters from the still unprotected women in the South, begging me to find employment for their daughters ... to save them from going into the homes of the South as servants as there is nothing to save them from dishonor and degradation.
Página 58 - The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own. I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble.
Página 68 - ... but the problem, I trow, now rests with the man as to how he can so develop his God-given powers as to reach the ideal of a generation of women who demand the noblest, grandest and best achievements of which he is capable; and this surely is the only fair and natural adjustment of the chances.
Referências a este livro
Earning More and Getting Less: Why Successful Wives Can't Buy Equality Veronica Jaris Tichenor Pré-visualização limitada - 2005 |
Black Families at the Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects Leanor Boulin Johnson,Robert Staples Pré-visualização limitada - 2004 |