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Women, Work, and Gender in the Caribbean: Recent Research

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Riva Berleant-Schiller
Riva Berleant-Schiller*
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University of Connecticut
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , 1999 , pp. 201 - 211
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Copyright © 1999 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. Paul Farmer, AIDS and Accusation (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992), 161, 183.

2. Two examples from a large literature are Fernando Henriques, Family and Colour in Jamaica (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1953, 1968); and T. S. Simey, Welfare and Planning in the West Indies (London: Oxford University Press, 1946).

3. The literature is too large to cite, but two classics are Edith Clarke, My Mother Who Fathered Me (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1957); and Raymond T. Smith, The Negro Family in British Guiana (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956). For a discussion of theory, see Christine Barrow, “Anthropology, the Family, and Women in the Caribbean,” in Gender in Caribbean Development, edited by Patricia Mohammed and Catherine Shepherd (Trinidad and Tobago: Women and Development Studies Project, University of the West Indies, 1988), 156–69.

4. See Olive Senior, Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991). Senior includes a summary of the project, an excellent synthesis of its findings, and a useful bibliography.

5. Janet H. Momsen, Women and Change in the Caribbean: A Pan-Caribbean Perspective (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).

6. Sallie Westwood, All Day, Every Day: Factory and Family in the Making of Women's Lives (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).

7. Women of the Caribbean, edited by Patricia Ellis (London: Zed, 1986); Mohammed and Shepherd, Gender in Caribbean Development; Women and The Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean, edited by Keith Hart (Mona, Jamaica: Consortium Graduate School of the Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, 1989); and Momsen, Women and Change.

8. Michelle Rosaldo, “Woman, Culture, and Society: A Theoretical Overview,” in Woman, Culture, and Society, edited by Michelle Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974).

9. Three contributions to Momsen's edited volume, Women and Change, make this point: Christine Barrow's “Small-Farm Production and Gender in Barbados,” 181–93; Riva Berleant-Schiller and William Maurer's “Women's Place Is Every Place: Merging Domains and Women's Roles in Barbuda and Dominica,” 65–79; and Karen Fog Olwig's “The Migration Experience: Nevisian Women at Home and Abroad,” 150–66.