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 livesof the European, Chineseand 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 thepoliticization of Caribbean women in the 20th century.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 204 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-762-4 (9780852557624)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
History, women and gender analysis; indigenous Caribbean women; European women in the pre-emancipation Caribbean; enslaved women; free women of colour during slavery; adjustments to emancipation and socio-economic life in the 19th and 20th centuries; immigrant women in the post-slavery period; on the move - Caribbean women and emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries; women and political activities in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
