This work provides an introduction for students, teachers and the general reader, giving accessible information on the history of Caribbean women. As well as focusing on enslaved black women, it provides a background to the lives of the European, Chinese and Indian women who lived in the English-speaking Caribbean. The text reveals insights and information on Caribbean women and their economic, social and political role in the region, and also analyzes the politicization of Caribbean women in the 20th century.

Women in Caribbean History: The British-colonised Territories

History

World

M. Wiener

Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society

Caribbean women, black, white and brown, free and enslaved, migrants and creoles, rich and poor are assembled in this book and their lives examined as they battled both against male domination and among themselves for social advantage. Hilary Beckles uses the method of narrative biography, with its appealing immediacy of women’s language, script and social politics, to expose the gender order of Caribbean slave society as it determined and defined the everyday lives of women. He also explores the effectiveness of women’s actions as they searched for autonomy, material betterment and social security.

Centering woman: Gender discourses in Caribbean slave society

Politics & Social Sciences

Beckles, Hilary

Women's Studies

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