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Walking on Fire Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance

Paperback • 2001 • English

Walking on Fire Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance

By Beverly Bell

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About the book

Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture, rape, abuse, illegal arrest, disappearance, and assassination.In Walking on Fire, Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a...Show more

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ISBN

9780801487484

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Walking on Fire Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance

Format

Paperback

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