Black Working Wives Pioneers of the American Family Revolution

Name: Black Working Wives Pioneers of the American Family Revolution
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ISBN: 9780520236820

ISBN-10: 0520236823

ISBN-13: 9780520236820

Edition: 2000

Authors: Bart Landry

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction



The Rise and Fall of the Traditional Family



Black Families: A Challenge to the Traditional Family Paradigm



Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood



The New Family Paradigm Takes Root and Spreads



Dual-Career Couples: Prototypes of the Modern Family



The Economic Contribution of Wives



Husbands and Housework: A Stalled Revolution?


Conclusion: The Future of Dual-Worker Families



Statistics on Family Households



Supplementary Figures



Logistic Regression Models


Notes


Bibliography


Index