Daughters of Caliban : Caribbean women in the twentieth century / edited by Consuelo López Springfield.
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...
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Bloomington :
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1997.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.