If It Wasn't for the Women Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community

Name: If It Wasn't for the Women Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community
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ISBN: 9781570753435

ISBN-10: 1570753431

ISBN-13: 9781570753435

Edition: 2001

Authors: Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 11/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction: Community, Churchwork, Culture, and Crisis Toward a Sociology of Indispensable Black Women



The Community Connection



"If It Wasn't for the Women ..." Community Work and Social Change



Exploring the Community Connection Race, Class, and Women's Agency



Church Women and Their Work



"Together and in Harness" Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church



The Roles of Church and Community Mothers Ambivalent American Sexism or Fragmented African Familyhood?



The Role of Women in the Sanctified Church



The Politics of "Silence" Dual-Sex Political Systems and Women's Traditions of Conflict



Womanist Culture



"Some Mother's Son and Some Father's Daughter" Issues of Gender, Biblical Language, and Worship



"Sisters Who Can Lift a Community" Nannie Helen Burroughs, "The Slabtown District Convention," and the Cultural Production of Community and Social Change



Crises, Confrontations, and Conflicts



"Liberated to Work Like Dogs!" Labeling Black Women and Their Work



The "Loves" and "Troubles" of African-American Women's Bodies The Womanist Challenge to Cultural Humiliation and Community Ambivalence



Ministry to Women Hearing and Empowering "Poor" Black Women


Notes


Acknowledgments


Publication History


Index