Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a diverse group of Haitian women.
... Walking on fire: Haitian women's stories of survival and resistance I Beverly Bell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-o-8014-8748-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN o-8014-8748-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women-Haiti-Social ...
... Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance was a significant contribution to the scholarship on Haitian women. It accorded due attention to the classes of women who have been neglected—forgotten—in their daily ...
... Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance that “there is no absolute line between power and powerlessness” (2001: 8). In her ethnography, Bell collects the istwa (stories/oral histories) of Haitian women to ...
... Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001) gives voice to contemporary Haitian women, whom she calls “[...] the keepers and recounters of history, truth, and wisdom ...
... Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance, ed. B. Bell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 39—44. CIA World Factbook. 2010. “Haiti.” Accessed 9 November 2010 online at https:// WWw.cia.gov/library ...
... Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance not only contributes to Haitian history by recording women's oral histories, but also expands our understanding of alternative ways of negotiating power differentials ...
... Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance. foreword. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001, ix–xii. “A Wall of Fire,” Cymbals (Summer 1991). “A Wasteful Approach to Detention,” Washington Post (5 March ...
... Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001); and Poto Mitan. 55. This notion of the “bag of tricks” takes on greater meaning when we consider that hougans, mambos, and ...
... Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001), 126. Bell, 2001, 8–9. Alex Dupuy, Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700 (Boulder, CO ...