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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nettles, Kimberly D.

Series:

Writing lives--ethnographic narratives.

Writing lives--ethnographic narratives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Guyana--Biography.

Women.

Women--Guyana--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-307) and index.

ISBN:

1-315-42787-7

1-315-42788-5

1-315-42789-3

1-59874-727-4

9781315427898

OCLC:

608038560