Women & Change in the Caribbean

A Pan-Caribbean Perspective

By: Janet Momsen (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 December 1993

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Recent discussion of postmodern culture describes a movement from center to periphery, privileging cultures that were formerly marginalized. Women and Change in the Caribbean, a study of women marginalized by both gender and race in a region such as the Caribbean-itself marginalized in global terms-attempts to extract insights relevant both within and beyond geographical confines.

This volume offers a feminist interpretation of a multicultural society emerging from colonialism and in the process of change and restructuring. The nineteen chapters include case studies of fifteen different Caribbean territories including Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Grenada, and Guyana. The book is divided into two sections: the first looks at women's status and gender relations in the private and public spheres; the second looks at women's economic activity. Taking a broad pan-Caribbean comparative view contributors discuss territories with American, British, Dutch, Danish, French, and Spanish colonial traditions and current political links.

The contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including agriculture, anthropology, economics, geography, history, sociology, and women's studies.

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Preface
Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
The Domestic Domain and the Community	p. 14
Reputation and respectability reconsidered: a new perspective on Afro-Caribbean peasant women	p. 15
Marriage and concubinage among the Sephardic merchant elite of Curacao	p. 38
Changing roles in the life cycles of women in traditional West Indian houseyards	p. 50
Women's place is everyplace: merging domains and women's roles in Barbuda and Dominica	p. 65
The Intersection of Reproduction and Production	p. 81
Women in Guadeloupe: the paradoxes of reality	p. 83
The development and role of women's political organizations in Guyana	p. 109
Neighbourhood networks and national politics among working-class Afro-Surinamese women	p. 132
The migration experience: Nevisian women and abroad	p. 150
Migration, development and the gender division of labour: Puerto Rico and Margarita Island, Venezuela	p. 167
Rural Employment	p. 180
Small farm food production and gender in Barbados	p. 181
A profile of Grenadian women small farmers	p. 194
Women in agriculture in Trinidad: An overview	p. 205
Women and Cuban smallholder agriculture in transition	p. 219
Development and gender divisions of labour in the rural Eastern Caribbean	p. 232
Urban Employment	p. 247
Transformation in the needle trades: women in garment and textile production in early twentieth-century Trinidad	p. 249
Gender and ethnicity at work in a Trinidadian factory	p. 263
Women's contribution to tourism in Negril, Jamaica	p. 278
Gender and new technology in the Caribbean: new work for women?	p. 287
Index	p. 296
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