Engendering History
Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2016
XXII, 406 pages
978-1-137-07302-0 (ISBN)
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Engendering History broadens the base of empirical knowledge on Caribbean women's history and re-evaluates the body of work that exists. The book is pan-Caribbean in its approach, though most articles are on the English-speaking Caribbean, highlighting the research pattern in Caribbean women's history.
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- SECTION ONE History and Gender Analysis: Theoretical Perspectives
- 1. Through an African Feminist Theoretical Lens: Viewing Caribbean Women's History Cross-culturally
- 2. Writing Gender into History: The Negotiation of Gender Relations among Indian Men and Women in Post-indenture Trinidad Society, 1917-47
- 3. Gender Politics and Imperial Politics: Rethinking the Histories of Empire
- SECTION TWO Text and Testimony: Sources and Methods for 'Engendering' Caribbean History
- 4. Text, Testimony and Gender: An Examination of some Texts by Women on the English-speaking Caribbean, from the 1770s to the 1920s
- 5. Gender and Memory: Oral History and Women's History
- 6. Pictorial Sources for Nineteenth-Century Women's History: Dress as a Mirror of Attitudes to Women
- SECTION THREE Women and Slavery
- 7. Sex and Gender in the Historiography of Caribbean Slavery
- 8. The Female Slave in Cuba during the first half of the Nineteenth Century
- 9. Women, Work and Resistance in the French Caribbean during Slavery 1700-1848
- 10. Street Vendors, Pedlars, Shop-Owners and Domestics: Some Aspects of Women's Economic Roles in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1870
- SECTION FOUR Women in the Post-Slavery Period
- 11. Victims or Strategists? Female lodging-house keepers in Jamaica
- 12. Women, Land Transactions and Peasant Development in Jamaica, 1866-1900
- 13. Gender, Migration and Settlement: The Indentureship and Post-indentureship Experience of Indian Females in Jamaica, 1845-1943
- 14. Access to Secondary Education for Girls in Barbados, 1907-43: A Preliminary Analysis
- SECTION FIVE Women, Protest and Political Movement
- 15. 'Females of Abandoned Character'? Women and Protest in Jamaica, 1838-65
- 16. Social and Political Motherhood of Cuba: Mariana Grajales Cuello
- 17. Women of the Masses: Daphne Campbell and 'left' Politics in Jamaica in the 1950s
- SECTION SIX Comparative Perspectives
- 18. Women and Infanticide in Nineteenth-century rural France
- 19. The Status, Role and Influence of Women in the Eastern Delta States of Nigeria, 1850-1900: Examples from New Calabar
- 20. Women and Plantations in West Cameroon since 1900
- Notes on Contributors
