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Gender in Caribbean development : papers presented at the Inaugural Seminar of the University of the West Indies, Women and Development Studies Project

Author: Patricia Mohammed; Catherine Shepherd; University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Women and Development Studies Project. Seminar
Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica : Canoe Press University of the West Indies, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Patricia Mohammed; Catherine Shepherd; University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Women and Development Studies Project. Seminar
ISBN: 9768125551 9789768125552
OCLC Number: 43868198
Description: xxii, 360 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: I. WOMEN'S STUDIES: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS --
Women's studies in an international context / Lucille Mathurin Mair --
II. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT: MODELS AND THEORIES --
Notes on the meaning and significance of development / Norman P. Girvan --
Theories of women in development in the Caribbean: the ongoing debate / A. Lynn Bolles --
Women in development programmes: the Caribbean experience (1975-1985) / Peggy Antrobus --
III. FEMINISM: HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL --
Feminism and feminist thought: an historical overview / Rhoda Reddock --
Concepts in feminist theory: consensus and controversy / Amrita Chhachhi --
Notes on the social relations of gender / Kate Young --
Some theoretical considerations on social class, class consciousness and gender consciousness / Sonia Cuales --
IV. DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES --
General problems and issues in studying the history of women / Bridget Brereton --
Gender, race and class in the Caribbean / Rosina Wiltshire-Brodber --
Men, women and family in the Caribbean: a review / Christine Barrow --
The Caribbean family revisited / Patricia Mohammed --
Jobs, gender and development strategy in the commonwealth Caribbean / Ralph Henry --
Researching women's work: 1985 and beyond / Joycelin Massiah --
V. IDEOLOGY AND CULTURE --
Images of men and women in the 1930s Calypsoes: the sociology of food acquisition in a context of survivalism / Gordon Rohlehr --
Ideology and culture in the Caribbean: transmissions through language policy in the education system / Kathleen Drayton --
VI. WOMEN'S LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM --
Feminism and the female authored West Indian novel: Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones / Marjorie Thorpe --
Where do we go from here? Literature in English and the women's studies programme at UWI / Elaine Savory Fido --
VII. ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY --
Women and health: a sistren participatory workshop / Joan French --
Women and health: a sistren participatory workshop - an analysis of the method / Patricia Mohammed --
VIII. WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS AND WOMEN WHO ORGANIZE --
Early women's organizations in Trinidad: 1920s to 1950s / Gema Ramkeesoon --
My views on women's involvement in organizations in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean / Nesta Patrick --
The contemporary women's movement in Trinidad and Tobago / Thelma Henderson.
Responsibility: edited by Patricia Mohammed, Catherine Shepherd ; with a new foreword by Elsa Leo-Rhynie.

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