FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING: BLACK WOMEN MANAGERS IN BRITAIN

Submitted by Carlis Douglas

For the Degree of PhD Of the University of Bath

1998

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Contents

Acknowledgements - (17kb)

Abstract - (12kb)

Introduction - (62kb)

Section One

1. My Story: the Caribbean Experience - (94kb)

2. My story: the emerging Adult - (79kb)

3. My story: the Black woman Professional - (161kb)

4. Discourses about liberating Black women - (204kb)

Section Two

5. Influences prefiguring methodological choice - (69kb)

6. In search of Methodology for Liberatory Research - (97kb)

7. Cooperative Research in Practice - (345kb)

Section Three – From Surviving to thriving

8. Understanding the Black woman’s context - (194kb)

9. Learning to Thrive - (189kb)

Section Four – So What?

10. So What? - (142kb)

Bibliography - (108kb)

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