title: Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings
author:  Valerie Lee 
description: ...offers fresh insight into the rich cultural and intellectual heritage of African-American women. -- <em>Journal of Women's History</em><br />[This book] is a fascinating look at the practice of midwifery both as a medical profession and as an evolving cultural icon in the literature of African American women. -- <em>Modern Fiction Studies</em><br />...high quality tools of transformation. ...compel readers to let the transformation of silence begin. -- <em>NWSA Journal</em><br />Health and Sexuality<br />This is a highly readable book which stresses the calling which these women experienced to serve poor women, both black and white. Their moral power which is protrayed in fiction is set alongside a fascinating interview with one fo the last remaining Grannies in the final chapter. -- Fawcett Library Newsletter<br />Lee...has done her homework, and many portions of her book are quite powerful. -- Emerge Magazine<br />Lee's analysis is mindful, affective, even nurturing. All's we have to do is lean in close and listen.-- <em>Vibe, May 1997</em><br />Clearly presented and accessible, <em>Granny Midwives and</em> <em>Black Women Writers</em> provides a different spin to folklore/literary studies. -- <em>Journal of Folklore</em> <em>Research</em>
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  # Blackhaven Brides
  
  
  Box Set 9–13
  
  
  Mary Lancaster
  
  
  
  
  
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