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Author Nettles, Kimberly D.

Title Guyana diaries : women's lives across difference / Kimberly D. Nettles
Published Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Writing lives--ethnographic narratives
Writing lives--ethnographic narratives.
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
Summary The author, an African American researcher, explores the impact of work, family, politics, and local culture on the lives of members of a women's work collective in the Caribbean and, in the process, discovers how differences in class and nation can overshadow the gender and race she shares with her subjects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index
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Subject Women -- Guyana -- Biography
Women -- Guyana -- Social conditions
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Women
Women -- Social conditions
Guyana
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008003537
ISBN 9781598747270
1598747274