Guyana diaries
Subtitle: women's lives across difference
By: Kimberly D. Nettles.
Series: Writing lives
Publisher: Left Coast Press, Inc.; Left Coast Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781598741940; 9781598741957
Subjects: Women -- Guyana -- Biography; Women -- Guyana -- Social conditions
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Kimberly D. Nettles narrates the life histories of members of the Red Thread Development Corporation, a group of women activists in the Caribbean. The author, an African American researcher, explores the impact of work, family, politics, and local culture on these women's lives and, in the process, discovers how differences in class and nation can overshadow the gender and race she shares with her subjects. Blending feminist ethnography, critical autobiography, and literary narratives, Nettles produces a work that sheds light on the self and the Other. It should be of interest to those in race and ethnic studies, gender studies, Caribbean studies, development studies, and qualitative inquiry."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introductions; title: Histories; title: Critical incidents: representing others/representing self; title: The Guyana diaries; title: Shifting ground; title: Women's work; title: Woman out of place; title: Meet us where we are; title: By the grace of god, we are making out; title: We all ... we is women together; title: A daughter comes home ... to self; title: Leaving Guyana; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index; title: About the author.