[stop-imf] New book - "Walking On Fire: Haitian Women's Stories ofSurvival and Resistance"

[Robert Weissman]

This new book from Center for Economic Justice director Bev Bell focuses
on, among other 
things, the impacts of Structural adjustment in Haiti and the responses
and 
resistance strategies of Haitian women to such policies.

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FORTHCOMING FROM CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and  Resistance

by BEVERLY BELL

FOREWORD BY EDWIDGE DANTICAT

“Beverly Bell’s remarkable book allows thirty-eight Haitian women to
speak 
for themselves…  They weave together an inspiring study in resistance
and 
alternative models of power.”
                                                  - Susan Sarandon

“Beverly Bell opens a door that has been closed for much too long. 
Oppressed beyond imagination, these voices convey sensibility, courage, 
creativity and power. I am moved at my core."
- Margaret Randall

Haiti, noted for poverty and repression, has a long, powerful, and 
too-often-overlooked history of resistance.  Equally powerful and 
overlooked has been the role of women within that resistance.

Walking on Fire brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a
diverse 
group of Haitian women.  The narrators include, for example, a former
prime 
minister, an illiterate poet, and a vodou dancer.  Together they tell
the 
untold story of how Haiti's poor and dispossessed have --despite all
odds 
staked out the survival of their human integrity, community, political 
voice, and democracy.  They combine theory with case studies of
resistance, 
gender, and power. Their narratives, and the accompanying analysis,
recount 
how their acts have collectively changed the balance of political and 
social power in Haiti.

Beverly Bell is the founder and director of the Center for Economic
Justice 
in Albuquerque, N.M. She has worked closely with the Haitian democracy
and 
women's movements for more than two decades. Edwidge Danticat is the
author 
of Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, and Krik? Krak!


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

Available for holiday gift-giving; order early to ensure books arrive in time!

$18.95 (shipping and handling: 1 book: add $3.50, 2-5 books: add $2.75 
each, 6-10 books: add $2.00 each).

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