The Black woman / edited by La Frances Rodgers-Rose.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : The black woman : a historical overview / La Frances Rodgers-Rose -- Part I. Social demographic characteristics -- Some demographic characteristics of the black woman : 1940 to 1975 / La Frances Rodgers-Rose -- Black fertility : recent demographic and sociological influences / Christina Brinkley-Carter -- Part II. The black woman and her family -- The black woman and family roles / Carrie Allen McCray -- The black woman and child rearing / Janice Hale -- She who is black and mother : in sociology and fiction, 1940-1970 / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- "The means to put my children through" : child-rearing goals and strategies among black female domestic servants / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Black mothers and the extended family support network / Harriet Pipes McAdoo -- Marital interaction goals of black women : strengths and effects / Essie Manuel Rutledge -- On marital relations : perceptions of black women / Lena Wright Myers -- Part III. Political, educational, and economic institutions and the black woman -- Role transition in early adulthood : orientations of young black women / Eleanor Engram -- Black female professionals : dilemmas and contradictions of status / Cheryl Bernadette Leggon -- Dilemmas of black females in leadership / Rhetaugh Graves Dumas -- "Holding back the ocean with a broom" : black women and community work / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Political behavior of American black women : an overview / Jewel L. Prestage -- Part VI. Social psychology of the black woman -- Dialectics of black male-female relationships / La Frances Rodgers-Rose -- Depression in black women : a theoretical appraisal / Chrisitine H. Carrington -- Black female suicides : is the excitement justified? / Delores P. Aldridge -- The women's liberation movement : understanding black women's attitudes / Willa Mae Hemmons -- The self/group actualization of black women / Geraldine L. Wilson.

Also issued online.

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