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Author Barriteau, Eudine

Title The political economy of gender in the twentieth-century Caribbean / Eudine Barriteau
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 214 pages) : maps
Series International political economy series
International political economy series (Palgrave (Firm))
Contents List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Mapping the Terrain -- Theorizing the State and Gender Systems in the Twentieth Century Caribbean -- Women and Gender Relations in the Twentieth Century Caribbean -- Constructing Gender Containing Women: Promoting Gender Equity in Caribbean States -- Gender System in an Independent Caribbean State: The Barbadian Case -- Women, The Economy and The State -- Rethinking Gender and Development for the Twenty-First Century -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in twentieth century Caribbean societies through analyzing the operations of gender systems. She reveals the absence of gender justice and equity, and demonstrates that after twenty-five years of policies on women, Caribbean societies still have not confronted the fundamental problem of women's subordination and the conditions that maintain this. The strategies used by developing states to focus on women are criticised as inadequate and it is recommended that state and society pay more attention to understanding the lives of women
"This is a timely contribution to the debates on gender issues in the Caribbean. .this book would seve as an excellent textbook for undergraduate students in courses on gender and development, as it pushes against commonly accepted tenets of gender relations in the Caribbean. Barriteau is to be commended for writing a thoughtful book that pushes against conventional perceptions of Caribbean women as essentially favoured economic and political citizens."--Lyla Brown, Black and Asian Studies Association
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sex discrimination against women -- Caribbean Area
Man-woman relationships -- Caribbean Area
Women -- Barbados
Women -- Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions
Women in development -- Caribbean Area
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Man-woman relationships
Sex discrimination against women
Women
Women -- Economic conditions
Women in development
Barbados
Caribbean Area
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230508163
0230508162