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>
zlib_text: > **THE THREE WOMEN**
  
  > VALERIE KEOGH
  
  > Copyright © 2020 Valerie Keogh
  
  The right of Valerie Keogh to be identified as the Author of the Work has been
  asserted by her in
  
  accordance to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
  
  First published in 2020 by Bloodhound Books
  
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  All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real
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  or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
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  Print ISBN 978-1-913419-32-5
  
  >  **CONTENTS**
  
  >  _Also by Valerie Keogh_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  