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Prologue: The Age of Michelle Obama; Introduction: What Is Your Season: Are You Defining or Redefining Your Life?; PART I DISPELLING THE MYTHS AND DISCOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT WHO WE ARE; 1. Who We Are and What We've Accomplished; 2. Our Context from Slavery to the White House: Why It Still Matters; PART II: HOW WE WORK AND LOVE; 3. Changing the Game: Redefining Ourselves in the Twenty-First-Century Workplace; 4. Why Can't a Successful Black Woman Find a Man? Actually, She Can; 5. Real Talk About Twenty-First-Century Relationship Expectations and Trends. |
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PART III MOVING BEYOND THE PAIN TO PURPOSE6. Jesus Is your Savior, Not Your Man: Candid Talk about the Church, Sexuality, and the Role They Play in Our Quest to Be Loved and Fulfilled; 7. Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Wound That We Have to Talk About; 8. Dwelling in the Valley of Our Past: Learning to Forgive, Release, and Heal from Our Hurts; PART IV REDEFINING OURSELVES -- WHAT REALLY MATTERS; 9. Empty Womb, Broken Heart: Redefining Motherhood in Today's World; 10. It's the Climb: Facing Life's Storms and Remaining Resilient. |
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11. Sisters, It's Time to Heal: Learning to Love, Uplift & Support Each OtherBONUS FEATURE: Celebrity and Distinguished African American Essays and Sage Wisdoms; Author's Note; A Tribute to the Late Dr. Dorothy Irene Height; Feature Essays; Short Essays: Wisdoms and Straight Talk You Can Stand On; Study Guide; RESEARCH APPENDICES: From the Researcher's Methodology and Summary of Key Findings; About the Author; Endnotes. |
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It's time for a REDEFINITION among black women in America. In its 2011 hardcover release, Black Woman Redefined was a top-selling book and took home a 2011 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the African American Literary Awards. Author Sophia A. Nelson won the 2012 Champions of Diversity Award, given each year by diversity business executives in Fortune 100 companies. Black Woman Redefined was inspired in part by what Nelson calls?open season on accomplished black women": from Don Imus's name-calling of black female basketball players in 2007. |
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African American women -- Social conditions.
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African American women -- Psychology.
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African American women -- Biography.
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African American women -- Economic conditions.
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African American women. |
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African American women -- Economic conditions. |
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African American women -- Psychology. |
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African American women -- Social conditions. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9781937856793 : $16.95 |
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1937856798 : $16.95 |
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