Women's Studies and Black Studies Journal

Volume 1, Number 2

Fall 2007

Black Women: Issues in the 21st Century & New Directions for Research

Table of Contents

From the Editors

Jennifer F. Hamer, Editor

Elizabeth R. Cole, Rhonda Y. Williams, and Sharon Harley, Associate Editors

The Health Status of Black Women: Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling

By Kimberly R. Jacob Arriola, Christine P.C. Borba and Winifred Wilkins Thompson

Black Women's Coping Styles: Psychologial Well-Being and Work-Related Outcomes Following Sexual Harrassment

By NiCole T. Buchanan, Isis Settles and Regina Langhout

Superinvisible Women: Black girls and Women in Education

By Tabbye Chavous and Courtney D. Cogburn

From Widow to "Welfare Queen:" Welfare and Politics of Race

By Premilla Nadasen

What It Do, Shorty? Women, Hip-Hop, and a Feminist Agenda

By Gwendolyn Pough