What the Village Gave Me: Conceptualizations of Womanhood

by Denise Davis-Maye (Editor), Annice Dale Yarber (Editor), Tonya E. Perry (Editor)

Overview

In What the Village Gave Me, the contributors—all women of color—present their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles. The goal of this book is to illuminate how these issues intersect with the transmission of cultural norms, marriage rates, and the development of professional self-efficacy. What the Village Gave Me illuminates topics relevant to women of color and touches upon careers, relationships, gender role understanding and subscription, ethnic identity, and cultural representation. This collection addresses how women who self-identify as “women of color” see themselves and manage their location in their work-life, families, and communities. By giving voice to the contributors, readers are afforded glimpses into the lives of these women and are provided with a valuable tool in the broader discourse on womanhood. This collection will help them see how race, class, and ethnicity work to divide or unite women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761861973
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/22/2013
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Denise Davis-Maye, PhD, is a licensed clinical social worker. An alumna of Clark Atlanta University with over twenty-three years of social work practice experience, Davis-Maye is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. Her research interests include the cultural, community, and familial impact on the emotional development of adolescent girls of African descent and the well-being, contributions, and roles of women of color.

Annice Dale Yarber, PhD, is an associate professor of sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. After serving twenty years as a social worker in the areas of substance abuse counseling and administration, she earned a PhD in medical sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Alabama. Her research interests include family, gender, and health. Dale Yarber co-edited Focus on Single Parent Families: Past, Present, and Future.

Tonya E. Perry, PhD, is a professor of social work at Alabama A & M University. She has more than twenty years of graduate teaching experience and is a former Johns Hopkins International AIDS Research Fellow and Fulbright-Hays Scholar. Perry’s research interests include socio-cultural issues related to the impact of HIV/AIDS, the health conditions of women of African ancestry, and the impact of development upon the status of women.

Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Section 1: Navigating Troubled Waters: Doing Womanhood in Work Life

1. Learning to Swim with the Barracudas: Negotiating Differences in the Workplace
Nia I. Cantey

2. Mammies, Maids &Mothers: Representations of African-American and Latina Women’s Reproductive Labor in Weeds
Johnanna Ganz

3. Being Black Academic Mothers
Angela K. Lewis, Sherri L. Wallace, and Clarissa L. Peterson

Section 2: Too Grown for Your Own Good: Doing Girlhood

4. Combing My Kinks: A Culturally Informed Program to Strengthen Mother-Daughter Relationships
Marva L. Lewis and Allisyn L. Swift

5. The ABCs of Doing Gender: Culturally Situated Non-Cognitive Factors & African American Girls
LaShawnda Lindsay-Dennis and Lawanda Cummings

6. Learning Black Womanhood: An Autoethnography
Denise Davis-Maye

Section 3: Turpentine, Sugar, and Pot Liquor: Black Women and Everyday Health

7. Growing Up Black and Female: Life Course Transitions and Depressive Symptoms
Claire Norris and Paige Miller

8. Saving My Soul and Making Me Fat?: Black Mothers and the Church
Annice Dale Yarber

Section 4: Speaking Change and Writing Wrongs: Representations of Activism

9. The Art of Activist Mothering: Black Feminist Leadership & Knowing What to Do
Denise McLane-Davison

10. What Mami Taught Me about Empire
Elizabeth Huergo