LEADER 04325nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910459241803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53885-3 010 $a9786612538858 010 $a0-226-75130-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226751306 035 $a(CKB)2670000000009717 035 $a(EBL)488107 035 $a(OCoLC)609856885 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000367475 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12071573 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000367475 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10343493 035 $a(PQKB)11459429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC488107 035 $a(DE-B1597)523763 035 $a(OCoLC)1135589582 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226751306 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL488107 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10366794 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253885 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000009717 100 $a19960412d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhat a woman ought to be and to do$b[electronic resource] $eBlack professional women workers during the Jim Crow era /$fStephanie J. Shaw 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1996 215 $a1 online resource (365 p.) 225 1 $aWomen in culture and society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-75119-8 311 $a0-226-75120-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tFOREWORD --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. "Aim always to attain excellence in character and culture": Child-rearing strategies --$t2. "The daughters of our community coming up": Developing community consciousness --$t3. "We are not educating individuals but manufacturing levers": Schooling reinforcements --$tEpilogue to Part 1 --$tPROLOGUE TO PART 2 --$t4. "I am teaching school here ... [but] I find it rather hard ... with my housekeeping": Private sphere work --$t5. "It was time ... that we should be members": Personal professional work --$t6. "Working for my race in one way or another ever since I was a grown woman": Public sphere work --$tConclusion --$tAppendix: Biographical sketches --$tAbbreviations and Sources --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aStephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870's through the 1950's allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that made them exceptional, and of the choices and commitments that made them leaders in their communities. What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do brings to life a world in which African-American families, communities, and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative, and social responsibility of girls. Shaw shows us how, in a society that denied black women full professional status, these girls embraced and in turn defined an ideal of "socially responsible individualism" that balanced private and public sphere responsibilities. A collective portrait of character shaped in the toughest circumstances, this book is more than a study of the socialization of these women as children and the organization of their work as adults. It is also a study of leadership-of how African American communities gave their daughters the power to succeed in and change a hostile world. 410 0$aWomen in culture and society. 606 $aAfrican American women in the professions$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican American women in the professions$xHistory. 676 $a305.48896073 700 $aShaw$b Stephanie J$g(Stephanie Jo),$f1955-$0919325 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459241803321 996 $aWhat a woman ought to be and to do$92061852 997 $aUNINA