Neither Separate Nor Equal (Women In The Political Economy)

298 Pages·1999·27.88 MB·English

by  Barbara Ellen Smith

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In the series
Women in the Political Economy
editedbyRonnieJ. Steinberg
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WOMEN, RACE, AND
CLASS IN THE SOUTH
Edited by
Barbara Ellen Smith
Temple University Press
PHILADELPHIA
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Published1999
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editedbyBarbaraEllenSmith.
p. em.- (Womenin thepoliticaleconomy)
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN 1-56639-679-4(alk. paper).-ISBN1-56639-680-8 (pbk. :alk. paper)
I. Women-SouthernStates-Socialconditions. 2. Minoritywomen-
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SouthernStates. 4. Sexrole-SouthernStates. 5. Southern
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7. SouthernStates-Economicconditions. 1. Smith,BarbaraE. II. Series
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For my mother,
Winnifred Watson Smith,
feminist,
internationalist,
and
Southern
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
BarbaraEllen Smith 1
Engendering History
1 The Social Relations of Southern Women
BarbaraEllen Smith 13
2 Transgressions in Race and Place: The Ubiquitous
Native Grandmother in America's Cultural Memory
Darlene Wilson and PatriciaD. Beaver 34
3 "A Good 01' Woman": Relations of Race
and Gender in an Indian Community
PatriciaB. Lerch 57
II Making a Living
4 Race, Class, and Intimacy in Southern Households:
Relationships Between Black Domestic Workers
and White Employers
Mahnaz Kousha 77
5 Women, Restructuring, and Textiles: The Increasing
Complexity of Subordination and Struggle in a
Southern Community
CynthiaD. Anderson and MichaelD. Schulman 91
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6 A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving the Socioeconomic
Fabric ofWomen's Lives
Ann M. OberhauserandAnne-Marie Turnage 109
III Sustaining Communities
7 Finding a Voice: Latinos in the South
LoidaC. Velazquez 125
8 Doing Good While Doing Well: Professional
Black Women in the Mississippi Delta
CynthiaM. Duncan, MargaretM. Walsh,
and GemmaBeckley 138
9 Holding Hands: An American Struggle for Community
Carol Stack 161
10 Women and Revolutionary Relations:
Community-Building in Appalachia 171
MonicaKellyAppleby
IV Changing Possibilities in the Global South
11 Gender, Race, and Place: Confounding Labor
Activism in Central Appalachia 185
SallyWard Maggard
12 Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move:
Tennessee Workers Explore the New International
Division of Labor
FranAnsleyand SusanWilliams 207
13 What's Sex Got to Do with It, Y'AII?
Mab Segrest 245
About the Contributors 271
Index 275
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Acknowledgments
Creatingacoherentvolumeoutofessaysbydiverseauthorsis
always a conceptual and stylistic challenge. I appreciate the
valuable suggestions of Michael Ames, Kenneth W. Goings,
MarthaSchmidt, and Lynet Uttal.
Any edited book also involves labor-intensive logistics. I
could not have kept up with the details without extensive as
sistance from graduate students Andreana Clay and Emily
Haire. Thank you. Although readers who have undertaken
similarprojectsmaydoubtmycredibility,I am alsograteful to
all thecontributorsfortheirflexibility,good humor,and time
liness.
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