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Title Belabored professions [electronic resource] : narratives of African American working womanhood / Xiomara Santamarina.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xiv, 222 p. : ill.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser -- Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	African American women -- Biography -- History and criticism.
	African American women -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	African American women in the professions -- History.
	African American women -- Employment -- History.
	Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
	Autobiography -- African American authors.
	African American women in literature.
	Autobiography -- Women authors.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	0807829811 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0807856487 (pbk. : alk. paper)