Rethinking Caribbean Difference

by Mohammed, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780415184205
• ISBN10: 0415184207
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Rethinking Caribbean Differenceexplores the effects of race and ethnicity, class and linguistic variation on gender issues and gender ideologies in the Caribbean. The papers in this issue include:Women's Organizations and Movements in Commonwealth Caribbean; InSearch of our Memory: Gender in the Netherlands Antilles; Gendered Testimonies: Autobiographies, Diaries and Letters by Women in Caribbean History; Gender Systems and the Project of Modernity in the Post-colonial Caribbean; Is There an International Feminism?; Shattering DevelopmentalistIllusions: Challenges for the Feminist Movement in Puerto Rico; Gender and International Relations: Issues for the Caribbean; Masculinity and the Dance of the Dragon: Reading Lovelace Discursively.

Table of Contents

Editorial	1	(5)
Patricia Mohammed
Towards Indigenous Feminist Theorizing in the Caribbean	6	(28)
Patricia Mohammed
Historicizing Slavery in West Indian Feminisms	34	(23)
Hilary McD. Beckles
Women's Organizations and Movements in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Response to Global Economic Crisis in the 1980s	57	(17)
Rhoda Reddock
Issues of Difference in Contemporary Caribbean Feminism	74	(12)
Rawwida Baksh-Soodeen
In Search of our Memory: Gender in the Netherlands Antilles	86	(15)
Sonia Magdalena Cuales
Shattering the Illusion of Development: The Changing Status of Women and Challenges for the Feminist Movement in Puerto Rico	101	(17)
Alice E. Colon-Warren
Idsa Alegria-Ortega
`Fanm se poto mitan': Haitian Woman, the Pillar of Society	118	(25)
Marie-Jose N'Zengou-Tayo
Gendered Testimonies: Autobiographies, Diaries and Letters by Women as Sources for Caribbean History	143	(21)
Bridget Brereton
Masculinity and the Dance of the Dragon: Reading Lovelace Discursively	164	(22)
Linden Lewis
Theorizing Gender Systems and the Project of Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean	186	(25)
Eudine Barriteau
Gender and International Relations: A Global Perspective and Issues for the Caribbean	211	(22)
Jessica Byron
Diana Thorburn
Reviews	233	(10)
Sudhanshu Handa on Keith Hart (ed.) Women and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean	233	(2)
Veronica Salter on Patricia Mohammed and Catherine Shepherd (eds) Gender in Caribbean Development	235	(2)
Patricia Mohammed on Janet Henshall Momsen (ed.) Women and Change in the Caribbean: A Pan-Caribbean Perspective	237	(3)
Michelle Rowley on Rhoda Reddock, Women Labour and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago: A History	240	(3)
Book Notes Hilary Nicholson on Christine Barrow Family in the Caribbean: Themes and Perspectives, Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton and Barbara Bailey (eds) Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective and Elsa Leo-Rhynie, Barbara Bailey and Christine Barrow (eds) Gender: A Caribbean Multi-Disciplinary Perspective