Guyana diaries : women's lives across difference / / Kimberly D. Nettles

• Autore: Nettles Kimberly D
• Pubblicazione: Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/80092/2881
• Soggetto topico: Women - Guyana; Women - Guyana - Social conditions
• Note generali: First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-307) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introductions -- Histories -- Critical incidents: representing others, representing self -- The Guyana diaries -- Shifting ground -- Women's work -- Woman out of place -- Meet us where we are -- "By the grace of God, we are making out" -- "We all ... we is women together" -- A daughter comes home ... to self -- Leaving Guyana -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.
• Sommario/riassunto: Guyana Diaries narrates the life histories of members of the Red Thread Development Corporation, a group of women activists in the Caribbean. Kimberly Nettles, an African American researcher, explores the impact of their work on these women's lives and, in the process, discovers differences of class and nation that overshadow the gender and race she shares with her subjects. Blending feminist ethnography, critical autobiography, and literary narratives, Nettles examines both the collective and her own experiences in studying its members, producing an illuminating, evocative work of self
• Titolo autorizzato: Guyana diaries
• ISBN: 1-315-42787-7; 1-315-42788-5; 1-315-42789-3; 1-59874-727-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810660403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Writing lives--ethnographic narratives.