Daughters of Caliban : Caribbean women in the twentieth century
Essays by leading Caribbean scholars explore the shifting boundaries between public and private life cross-culturally. Daughters of Caliban demonstrates how gender, race, ethnicity, and class shape human experience and interpersonal relationships in increasingly global societies. The volume examines Caribbean women and women's studies; women and work; women, law, and political change; women and health; and women and popular culture
xxi, 316 pages: illustrations; 25 cm.
9780253332493, 9780253210920, 9781899365159, 0253332494, 0253210925, 189936515X
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Introduction : revisiting Caliban : implications for Caribbean feminisms / Consuelo López Springfield
Decolonizing feminism : the home-grown roots of Caribbean women's movements / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Empowering the mother tongue : the Creole movement in Guadeloupe / Cynthia J. Mesh
We toil all the livelong day : women in the English-speaking Caribbean / Mary Johnson Osirim
Reinventing higglering across transnational zones : Barbadian women juggle the triple shift / Carla Freeman
Across the Mona Strait : Dominican boat women in Puerto Rico / Luisa Hernández Angueira
Daughter of Caro / Ruth Behar
The power to heal : Haitian women in vodou / Karen McCarthy Brown
Menstrual taboos, witchcraft babies, and social relations : women's health traditions in rural Jamaica / Elisa J. Sobo
Women, health, and development : the commenwealth Caribbean / Caroline Allen
The colonial legacy : gendered laws in Jamaica / Suzanne LaFont and Deborah Pruitt
[Re]considering Cuban women in a time of troubles / Carollee Bengelsdorf
"Así son" : salsa music, female narratives, and gender (de)construction in Puerto Rico / Frances Aparicio
Face of the nation : race, nationalisms, and identities in Jamaican beauty pageants / Natasha B. Barnes