Changing woman
Subtitle: a history of racial ethnic women in modern America
By: Karen Anderson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Afro-American women; Indian women -- United States; Mexican American women; Minority women -- United States
Description: While great strides have been made in documenting the historical experiences and actions of middle-class white women in United States, scholarship on racial ethnic women has begun to appear only in recent years as women of color and other scholars have broadened the base of inquiry in women's history. Without a window into the lives of racial ethnic women our understanding of the meanings and dynamics of various forms of social inequality will be woefully inadequate.

Now, in this illuminating volume, Karen Anderson offers the first book to examine the lives of women from three important ethnic groups in the United States - Native American, Mexican American, and African American women - revealing the specificities and commonalities of their experiences. Changing Woman provides the first comparative history of women from these racial ethnic groups, explaining changes in the sources and nature of the oppressions in their lives and tracing their progress over time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-284) and index.

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