Guyana Diaries

Women's Lives Across Difference
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-59874-195-7
Verlag: Left Coast Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

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 and other. It should be of interest to those in race and ethnic studies, gender studies, Caribbean studies, development studies, and qualitative research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nettles, Kimberly D

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Part I: Introductions, 1. Histories, 2. Critical Incidents: Representing Others, Representing Self, Part II: The Guyana Diaries, 3. Shifting Ground, 4. Women’s Work, 5. Woman Out of Place, 6. Meet Us Where We Are, 7. “By the Grace of God, We Are Making Out”, 8. “We All. We Is Women Together”, 9. A Daughter Comes Home. to Self, 10. Leaving Guyana, 11. Epilogue, Notes, References, Index, About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Kimberly D. Nettles is an assistant professor in Women & Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis.