Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend by Rosemary Wilkinson

Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend by Rosemary Wilkinson

Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association

Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to have it all, raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet for all the articles and books written on this subject, there has been little work that focuses on the experience of African American professional women or asks how their perspectives on work-family balance might be unique.

Raising the Race is the first scholarly book to examine how black, married career women juggle their relationships with their extended and nuclear families, the expectations of the black community, and their desires to raise healthy, independent children. Drawing from extensive interviews with twenty-three Atlanta-based professional women who left or modified careers as attorneys, physicians, executives, and administrators, anthropologist Rich J. Daniel Barnes found that their decisions were deeply rooted in an awareness of black women's historical struggles. Departing from the possessive individualistic discourse of having it all, the women profiled here think beyond their own situation-considering ways their decisions might help the entire black community.

Giving a voice to women whose perspectives have been underrepresented in debates about work-family balance, Barnes's profiles enable us to perceive these women as fully fledged individuals, each with her own concerns and priorities. Yet Barnes is also able to locate many common themes from these black women's experiences, and uses them to propose policy initiatives that would improve the work and family lives of all Americans.

For many years, Rosemary Wilkinson has been designing and sewing quilts. Her early quilts were classic hand-stitched designs, but she is now experimenting with more creative approaches, such as merging machine stitching with heavy embroidery and silks. Her patchwork quilting publications include The Little Book of Easy Quilting, Quick Colorful Quilts, Quick Quilts for Infants & Toddlers, Quick Colorful Quilts for Gorgeous Bedrooms, and Classic Quilts: Tradition With A Twist.

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ISBN 13	9780805046823
ISBN 10	0805046828
Title	Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend
Author	Rosemary Wilkinson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Henry Holt & Company
Year published	1996-04-01
Number of pages	0
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