Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope (Radcliffe Biography Series) - Hardcover

Robert Coles; Jane Hallowell Coles

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9780440095361: Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope (Radcliffe Biography Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0440095360 ISBN 13: 9780440095361

Publisher: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978

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Women's Studies, Social Studies

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Two decades ago Robert Coles (The Moral Intelligence of Children: How to Raise a Moral Child) began collaborating with his wife, Jane Hallowell Coles, on a series of interviews that spanned many years. The resulting book speaks volumes about class, race, and gender in an America where poverty abounds. Five women's voices ring out strongly: a migrant farmworker trying to break free of a bone-numbing life; an Appalachian mother with jittery dreams; an Eskimo woman who scorns convention; a traditional young Chicana in Texas; and a wry, observant maid in Massachusetts. Their sensibilities range from stubborn refusal to heed warnings about "stepping out of my proper shoes" to shrugging acceptance of a woman's lot.

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