| Description |
xxii, 406 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Through an African feminist theoretical lens : viewing Caribbean women's history cross-culturally / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- Writing gender into history : the negotiations of gender relations among Indian men and women in post-indenture Trinidad society, 1917-47 / Patricia Mohammed -- Gender politics and imperial politics : rethinking the histories of empire / Catherine Hall -- Text, testimony and gender : an examination of some texts by women on the English-speaking Caribbean, from the 1770s to the 1920s / Bridget Brereton -- Gender and memory : oral history and women's history / Mary Chamberlain -- Pictorial sources for nineteenth-century women's history : dress as a mirror of attitudes to women / Glory Robertson -- Sex and gender in the historiography of Caribbean slavery / Hilary Beckles -- The female slave in Cuba during the first half of the nineteenth century / Digna Castañeda -- Women, work and resistance in the French Caribbean during slavery, 1700-1848 / Bernard Moitt -- Street vendors, pedlars, shop-owners and domestics : some aspects of women's economic roles in nineteenth-century San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1870 / Felix V. Matos-Rodriguez -- Victims or strategists? : female lodging-house keepers in Jamaica / Paulette A. Kerr -- Women, land transactions and peasant development in Jamaica, 1866-1900 / Veront M. Satchell -- Gender, migration and settlement : the indentureship and post-indentureship experience of Indian females in Jamaica, 1845-1943 / Verene A. Shepherd -- Access to secondary education for girls in Barbados, 1907-43 : a preliminary analysis / Janice Mayers -- Females of abandoned character? : women and protest in Jamaica, 1838-65 / Swithin Wilmot -- Social and political motherhood of Cuba : Mariana Grajales Cuello / Jean Stubbs -- Women of the masses : Daphne Campbell and 'left' politics in Jamaica in the 1950s / Linnette Vassell-- Women and infanticide in nineteenth-century rural France / Jonathan Dalby -- The status, role and influence of women in the eastern delta states of Nigeria, 1850-1900 : examples from New Calabar / Waibinte E. Wariboko -- Women and plantations in West Cameroon since 1900 / Richard Goodridge. |
| Subject |
Women -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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| Added Author |
Shepherd, Verene.
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Brereton, Bridget, 1946-
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Bailey, Barbara (Barbara Evelyn)
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| ISBN |
0312127650 cloth |
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9780312127657 cloth |
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0312127669 paperback |
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9780312127664 paperback |
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