{"product_id":"walking-on-fire-beverly-bell-9780801487484","title":"Walking on Fire: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaiti, 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 \u003ci\u003eWalking on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a diverse group of Haitian women. The interviewees include, for example, a former prime minister, an illiterate poet, a leading feminist theologian, and a vodou dancer. Defying victim status despite gender- and state-based repression, they tell how Haiti's poor and dispossessed women have fought for their personal and collective survival.The women's powerfully moving accounts of horror and heroism can best be characterized by the Creole word istwa, which means both \"story\" and \"history.\" They combine theory with case studies concerning resistance, gender, and alternative models of power. Photographs of the women who have lived through Haiti's recent past accompany their words to further personalize the interviews in \u003ci\u003eWalking on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beverly Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080148748X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801487484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.96w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2001 pg. 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQbr the Black Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2002 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2002 pg. 2020","brand":"Beverly Bell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598251061503,"sku":"9780801487484","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_749f4cac-caa7-45ab-8a75-8d1fb40d11fa.jpg?v=1702381449","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walking-on-fire-beverly-bell-9780801487484","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}