Wilma A Dunaway

Gebundenes Buch

Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South

Beschreibung

The nature of female labor in the antebellum Appalachian South was shaped by race, ethnicity, and/or class positions.

Autor

Wilma A. Dunaway was born into an interracial family in east Tennessee in 1944. For more than two decades, she worked in civil rights and public services organizations in the Appalachian region. At present, she is an Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dunaway is a specialist in international slavery studies, Native American studies, Appalachian studies, and world-system analysis. Her dissertation about the incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the capitalist world economy was awarded a Wilson Fellowship and the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association. She has won several awards for her previous three works on Appalachia and slavery, including two Weatherford Awards. Her interdisciplinary work has appeared in numerous history and social science journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780521886192
• ISBN-10: 0521886198
• Artikelnr.: 23526466