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



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Autore: Nettles Kimberly D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Guyana diaries : women's lives across difference / / Kimberly D. Nettles Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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Serie: Writing lives--ethnographic narratives.