On Our Own Terms

Leith Mullings is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author of Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change (1984), and editor of Cities of the United States (1987).

"Mullings' greatest offering is her transformational viewpoint, which presents fertile ground for real solutions to the problems faced by the African-American community.--Assata Zerai, Syaracuse University.""...practical applications in the classroom, especially in the anthropology courses, where applying research on gender in restructured ways could help foster an understanding of social policy issues. The scholarly work in this book also can be valuable for other educational practitioners who would like to revamp their women-centered curricula, particularly those emphasizing disciplines, such as literature, history, health, and science." -- NWSA Journal"Mullings' greatest offering is her transformational viewpoint, which presents fertile ground for real solutions to the problems faced by the African-American community.--Assata Zerai, Syracuse University."

• Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part 1. Women, Work, and Community; Introduction; 1. Notes on Women, Work, and Society; 2. Uneven Development: Class, Race, and Gender in the United States Before 1900; 3. Minority Women, Work, and Health; Part 2. Kin and Family; Introduction: Perspectives on the American Family; 4. Anthropological Perspectives on the African American Family; 5. Households Headed by Women: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender; Part 3. Representation, Resistance, and Transformation: Theory and Practice in Politics and in the Academy; Introduction; 6. Images, Ideology, and Women of Color; 7. Mapping Gender in African American Political Strategies 8. Gender and the Application of Anthropological Knowledge to Public Policy in the United States; 9. Race, Inequality, and Transformation: Building on the Work of Eleanor Leacock; 10. Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity