Black working wives : pioneers of the American family revolution / Bart Landry.

Author: Landry, Bart.

Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

ISBN: 0520236823 (pbk.)

Description: xiv, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject: Dual-career families United States History.
African American families History.
African American women Employment History.
Married women Employment United States History.
Middle class families.

Notes: "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."

Contents: The rise and fall of the traditional family -- Black families: a challenge to the traditional family paradigm -- Black women and a new definition of womanhood -- The new family paradigm takes root and spreads -- Dual-career couples: prototypes of the modern family -- The economic contribution of wives -- Husbands and housework: a stalled revolution?