Gender in Caribbean development : papers presented at the Inaugural Seminar of the University of the West Indies, Women and Development Studies Project / edited by Patricia Mohammed, Catherine Shepherd ; with a new foreword by Elsa Leo-Rhynie.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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