Buss, Fran Leeper, 1942-....
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Historian associated with the University of Arizona.
From the description of Work and family : low income and minority women talk about their lives, 1976-1990. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 27959871
A minister with United Campus Christian Ministry and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Arizona, Buss has been a community organizer since the late 1960s, when she herself was struggling to survive as an ill, divorced mother of three, dependent on welfare for support. She founded and directed the Women's Crisis and Information Center in Fort Collins, Co. (1971-1973), worked in community outreach in Denver and Las Vegas, and taught at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, and the University of Arizona. She is the author of La Partera: Story of a Midwife (1980), Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles (1985), Journey of the Sparrows (1991), and Forged under the Sun: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas (1993).
From the description of Work and family : low income and minority women talk about their lives, ca.1930-1990 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008461
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Subjects:
- Adoption
- African American women
- Asian American women
- Child abuse
- Childbirth
- Child labor
- Child rearing
- Death
- Divorce
- Domestic relations
- Family violence
- Friendship
- Grandparent and child
- Hispanic American women
- Home economics
- Immigrants
- Indians of North America
- Labor disputes
- Marriage
- Midwives
- Minority women
- Minority women
- Motherhood
- Parent and child
- Poor women
- Poor women
- Pregnancy
- Race discrimination
- Race relations
- Substance abuse
- Welfare recipients
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women and religion
- Women in agriculture
- Women labor union members
- Women prisoners
- Women refugees
- Women's health services
- Women's studies
- Working class women
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- Appalachian Region (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Southern States (as recorded)
- Middle West (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- West (U.S.) (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
