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black women entertainers writing autobiography
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dreher, Kwakiutl L.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2008
- Thesaurus
- performers, actrices, zangeressen, zwarte vrouwen, discriminatie, vrouwbeelden, populaire cultuur, autobiografieën, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book pays attention to the written narratives of six acclaimed black women in entertainment: Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mary Wilson. Dreher uses autobiography as a tool to see beyond the glamour image of popular culture and to explore each women's full meaning in American culture at large, in the American entertainment culture, and in the politically charged environment of the black community. We learn the real stories of the women as wife, (single) mother, widow, world traveler and wanderer, battered child/battred woman, divorcee, drug abuser, banished and exiled woman, activist/renegade and, ultimately, storyteller.
imagining a life
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lowry, Beverly
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 TUB 2007
- Thesaurus
- abolitionisme, slavernij, zwarte vrouwen, vrouwenkiesrecht, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Portrait of Tubman (1820-1913), an African-American abolitionist, who escaped from captivity and made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves. Later she struggled for women's suffrage.
challenges and solutions for our female workforce : Volume II: obstacles and the identity juggle
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Paludi, Michele A. > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 52 2008
- Thesaurus
- betaalde arbeid, arbeidsomstandigheden, psychologisch, psychologie, beroepen in de gezondheidszorg en hulpverlening, relaties, zwarte vrouwen, racisme, seksueel geweld, glazen plafond, man vrouw verschillen, leidinggevende beroepen, personeelsbeleid, Ethiopië, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- The author and other contributing experts examine all aspects of women at work, how it is changing American society, its women, their relationships, partners, and children. The factors that fuel women achievers are also discussed by female scholars and experts in the field, who illustrate points with their own career development stories. .Issues in the workplace affecting women's wellbeing are discussed, including sexual harassment and related laws, pregnancy-related work policy and regulations, challenges for women bosses and career moms, the glass ceiling, racism, women's relationships with male coworkers, and issues that rise when a woman is the ‘breadwinner’.
cultural icon for the neoliberal era
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Peck, Janice
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 1L 2008
- Thesaurus
- televisie, media, sociale klasse, etniciteit, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken her from talk show queen to one of the most important figures in popular culture. Through her talk show, magazine, website, seminars, charity work, and public appearances, her influence in the social, economic, and political arenas of American life is considerable and until now, largely unexamined. Peck traces Winfrey's growing cultural impact and illustrates the fascinating parallels between her road to fame and fortune and the political-economic rise of neoliberalism in the United States. While seeking to understand Oprah's ascent to near iconic status that she enjoys today, Peck's book provides a window into the intersection of American politics and culture over the past quarter century.
an analysis of 2006 homicide data : females murdered by males in single offender incidents
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- moorden, slachtoffers, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 2000-2009, 21e eeuw
the many lives of a nineteenth-century American journalist
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Scharnhorst, Gary
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 FIE 2008
- Thesaurus
- journalisten, zwarte vrouwen, mensenrechten, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the American journalist, lecturer, and actress Kate Field (1838–1896), born Mary Katherine Keemle Field. She wrote for newspapers, such as the Boston Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Herald, as well her own Kate Field’s Washington. Field’s friends and professional acquaintances included Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot. She was an advocate for the rights of black Americans and founder of the first women’s club in America.
inequalities, careers and employment relations
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bradley, Harriet
- Creator
- Healy, Geraldine
- Creator
- Nolan, Peter > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 10 2008
- Thesaurus
- betaalde arbeid, etniciteit, zwarte vrouwen, gender, sociale klasse, arbeidsmarkt, arbeidsparticipatie, discriminatie, seksisme, racisme, overheidsbeleid, werkgevers, vakbonden, loopbanen, Europa, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- By directly addressing the working lives of black women, this book demonstrates the way that the intersection of gendered and ethnic identities operate in the contexts of work and home situations. It puts the British picture of gender and ethnicity in an international context by drawing in experiences, data and policy insights from the United States and mainland Europe.
black women performers and the shaping of the modern
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brown, Jayna
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- zwarte vrouwen, danseressen, zangeressen, populaire cultuur, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Babylon Girls is a cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows between 1890 and 1945. Through a consideration of the gestures, costuming, vocal techniques, and stagecraft developed by African American singers and dancers, Brown explains how these women shaped the movement and style of an emerging urban popular culture. They pioneered dance movements and the Charleston--black dances by which the 'New Woman' defined herself. These early-twentieth-century performers brought these dances with them as they toured across the United States and around the world, becoming cosmopolitan subjects more widely traveled than many of their audiences.
black women historians in the ivory tower
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- White, Deborah Gray > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Feimster, Chrystal N.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2008
- Thesaurus
- geschiedschrijfsters, zwarte vrouwengeschiedenis, historiografie, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Seventeen black women historians at various stages in their careers tell how they entered and navigated higher education, how they have confronted racism, sexism and homophobia in academia, how the personal and the political intersect in historical research and writing and in the academy and how they contributed to the institutionalization of African American and African American women's history.
toward a hip-hop feminist pedagogy
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brown, Ruth Nicole
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 22 2008
- Thesaurus
- zwart feminisme, zwarte vrouwen, zwarte meisjes, populaire cultuur, eigentijdse muziek, vrouwenstudies, pedagogie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The author argues that that performances of everyday Black girlhood are mediated by popular culture, personal truths and lived experiences, and that the discussion and critique of these factors can be a great asset in the celebration of Black girls, in a context of hip-hop feminism and critical pedagogy.