Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective

Front Matter....Pages N1-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Through an African Feminist Theoretical Lens....Pages 3-19
Writing Gender into History....Pages 20-47
Gender Politics and Imperial Politics....Pages 48-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Text, Testimony and Gender....Pages 63-93
Gender and Memory....Pages 94-110
Pictorial Sources for Nineteenth-Century Women’s History....Pages 111-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Sex and Gender in the Historiography of Caribbean Slavery....Pages 125-140
The Female Slave in Cuba during the first half of the Nineteenth Century....Pages 141-154
Women, Work and Resistance in the French Caribbean during Slavery 1700–1848....Pages 155-175
Street Vendors, Pedlars, Shop-Owners and Domestics....Pages 176-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Victims or Strategists?....Pages 197-212
Women, Land Transactions and Peasant Development in Jamaica, 1866–1900....Pages 213-232
Gender, Migration and Settlement....Pages 233-257
Access to Secondary Education for Girls in Barbados, 1907–43....Pages 258-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
‘Females of Abandoned Character?’....Pages 279-295
Social and Political Motherhood of Cuba....Pages 296-317
Women of the Masses....Pages 318-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Women and Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century rural France....Pages 337-368
The Status, Role and Influence of Women in the Eastern Delta States of Nigeria, 1850–1900....Pages 369-383
Women and Plantations in West Cameroon since 1900....Pages 384-402
Back Matter....Pages 403-406