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Book cover image of Engendering History by Verene Shepherd

Authors: Verene Shepherd (Editor), Bridget Brereton (Editor), Barbara Bailey
ISBN-13: 9780312127657, ISBN-10: 0312127650
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: June 1995
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Verene Shepherd

Book Synopsis

Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective, the outcome of an international symposium held at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in November 1993, is designed to contribute to the ongoing interpretive debate which is an important marker of the relatively new field of women's history.

	Preface
	Introduction
1	Through an African Feminist Theoretical Lens: Viewing Caribbean Women's History Cross-culturally	3
2	Writing Gender into History: The Negotiation of Gender Relations among Indian Men and Women in Post-indenture Trinidad Society, 1917-47	20
3	Gender Politics and Imperial Politics: Rethinking the Histories of Empire	48
4	Text, Testimony and Gender: An Examination of some Texts by Women on the English-speaking Caribbean, from the 1770s to the 1920s	63
5	Gender and Memory: Oral History and Women's History	94
6	Pictorial Sources for Nineteenth-Century Women's History: Dress as a Mirror of Attitudes to Women	111
7	Sex and Gender in the Historiography of Caribbean Slavery	125
8	The Female Slave in Cuba during the first half of the Nineteenth Century	141
9	Women, Work and Resistance in the French Caribbean during Slavery, 1700-1848	155
10	Street Vendors, Pedlars, Shop-Owners and Domestics: Some Aspects of Women's Economic Roles in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1870	176
11	Victims or Strategists? Female lodging-house keepers in Jamaica	197
12	Women, Land Transactions and Peasant Development in Jamaica, 1866-1900	213
13	Gender, Migration and Settlement: The Indentureship and Post-indentureship Experience of Indian Females in Jamaica, 1845-1943	233
14	Access to Secondary Education for Girls in Barbados, 1907-43: A Preliminary Analysis	258
15	'Females of Abandoned Character'? Women and Protest in Jamaica, 1838-65	279
16	Social and Political Motherhood of Cuba: Mariana Grajales Cuello	296
17	Women of the Masses: Daphne Campbell and 'left' Politics in Jamaica in the 1950s	318
18	Women and Infanticide in Nineteenth-century rural France	337
19	The Status, Role and Influence of Women in the Eastern Delta States of Nigeria, 1850-1900: Examples from New Calabar	369
20	Women and Plantations in West Cameroon since 1900	384
	Notes on Contributors	403