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Author Beamon, Nika C.

Title I didn't work this hard just to get married : successful single black women speak out / Nika C. Beamon ; foreword by Bella DePaulo
Published Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 176 pages)
Contents Livin' single / with Kim Coles -- Princess Charming / with Deborah Gregory -- SSIC : single sistah in charge / with Susan Chapman -- The enjolie woman is dead / with Jackie DeVaughn -- I can do bad by myself / with Pamela Harris -- Baby mama, no drama / with Lisa Parker -- Walking the single's beat / with Kiada Moragne -- Not all black women are angry / with Shenequa Grey -- Even a broken clock is right twice a day / with Effie T. Brown -- Happily ever after? / with Nancey Flowers -- Singular sensation / with Sheila Bridges -- Being single is just another option / with J.C. Lamkin -- Captain in a solo army / with Gwyneth Bradshaw -- Solo flyer / with Catherine McKenzie -- Rewriting the rules of single life / with Lacy Lewis -- Single according to God's plan / with Camille Young -- Single and refusing to settle / with Sidney Morris -- Alone, not lonely : "I know that I will never disappoint myself" -- Suddenly single : the social pressures on single sistahs -- Salvation for single sistahs? : is marriage all it's cracked up to be? -- Lone warriors : single black women fight for a brighter future
Summary Through lively and revealing interviews with women from various walks of life, this account speaks directly to the single black woman's experience, addressing unique challenges such as income discrepancies between genders, the high rate of male incarceration, and the 'Baby Mama Syndrome'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176)
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Subject Single women -- United States
African American single people -- Psychology
African American women -- Psychology
Single mothers -- United States -- Psychology
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American women -- Psychology
Single mothers -- Psychology
Single women
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781569763537
1569763534