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The Black woman in America: sex, marriage, and the family.

Title
The Black woman in America: sex, marriage, and the family.
Author
Staples, Robert
Publication
Chicago, Nelson-Hall Publishers [1973]

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xv, 269 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
A sociologist considers the African and slavery heritage of Black women as he exposes myths concerning their sexuality and examines their sexual experiences, oppression, and response to feminist movements.
Series Statement
Professional-technical series
Subject
  • Women
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Marriage
  • Family
  • Black or African American
  • African American women
  • United States
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 243-259.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Dr. Joyce Ladner -- Introduction -- Black Womanhood: Myth and Reality -- The Sexual Life of Black Women -- Bodies for Sale: Black Prostitutes in White America -- Being Married-and Black -- The Joy and Pain of Motherhood -- Black Women and Women's Liberation -- Voices of Black Womanhood -- Conclusion.
ISBN
0911012559
LCCN
^^^72095280^
OCLC
  • 658171
  • SCSB-10990602
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library