Black professional women in recent American fiction / Carmen Rose Marshall.
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Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
[2004], ©2004.
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Physical Description: | viii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The dearth of self-actualized Black professional women protagonists
- Consumer desire for self-empowered Black professional women protagonists
- Craft and culture : challenges to Black professional womens representation
- Production and market : social challenges
- Feminism and nationalism : conflicts in The salt eaters
- Re-thinking agency in Waiting to exhale
- Reader response : findings and applications
- Appendix A : Occupational distributions of black and white women: 1940, 1960, and 1980
- Appendix B : Family assets of Black and white women by employment status
- Appendix C : Respondent information and questionnaire results.