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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION 1: HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY -- Gender in Caribbean History -- Sex and Gender in the Historiography of Caribbean Slavery -- Dress as Jamaican History -- Women's History in Puerto RicanHistoriography: The Last Thirty Years -- Gender and Memory: Oral History and Women's History -- SECTION 2: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Mères Pacifiques, Femmes Rebelles?: Women in Pre-Colonial Africa- An Overview -- The Sociology of Gender: Theoretical Perspectives and Feminist Frameworks -- Women and Difference in Caribbean Gender Theory: Notes towards a Strategic Universalist Feminism -- Gender Politics and Imperial Politics: Rethinking the Histories of Empire -- Writing Gender into History: The Negotiation of Gender Relations among Indian Men and Women in Post-Indenture Trinidad Society, 1917-47 -- SECTION 3: WOMEN, COLONISATION AND REPRESENTATION -- Women in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean -- 'The Eye of the Beholder': Contemporary European Images of Black Women -- Gender and Representation in European Accounts of Pre-Emancipation Jamaica -- 'But Most of all Mi Love Mi Browning': The Emergence in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Jamaica of th eMulatto Woman as Desired -- White Women and Colonialism: Towardsa Non-Recuperative History -- SECTION 4: WOMEN AND ENSLAVEMENT -- The Black Woman: Demographic Profile,Occupation and Abuse -- Women in New World Slavery -- Enslaved Women on Jamaican Pens -- Women, the Womb and Weaning: Natural Increase on Eighteenth-century Sugar Plantations -- Street Vendors, Pedlars, Shop-Owners and Domestics: Some Aspects of Women's Economic Roles in Nineteenth-century San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-70 -- Enslaved African Women in Cuban Economy during the Nineteenth Century.

Knowledge production in the Caribbean: contemporary writings, the construction of 'Africa(n)' and the task of reconstruction --Culture, creolization and marronage in the Caribbean: engaging with the writings of Rex Nettleford --'Sex in the tropics': women, gender and sexuality in the discourses of Asian labour migration to the British-Colonized Caribbean --University of the West Indies and the decolonization project --Roots and routes: intra- Caribbean trade links since the fifteenth century --'Groundings' with Tacky (Takyi) on history, heritage and activism --Revolution and post-revolution: re-imaging and rethinking Haiti --'Petticoat rebellion'?: women and emancipation in colonial Jamaica --'Beside every successful man': the unsung activists of the 1831-1832 emancipation war in Jamaica --Apprenticeship and indentureship: re/placing slavery in the British-Colonized Caribbean -- historical trends --'My feet is [sic] my only carriage: gender and labour mobility in the post-slavery Caribbean --The politics of migration: official policy towards Indians in Jamaica, 1845- 1945 --'Dear Mrs. Seacole': 'groundings' with Mary Seacole on slavery, gender and citizenship --'Up from slavery': the legacy of slavery and the project of emancipation in the commonwealth Caribbean --Ranking game: discourses of belongings in Jamaican history --Emancipation proclamation and August 1, 1838: text and context --'I want to disturb my neighbour' and 'The man at the door' in an age of individualism --After the exhibition is gone: public memory is an age of historical amnesia --Case for reparation: historical basis --Challenging masculine myths: gender, history education and development in Jamaica --From redemption song to remembrance walls: establishing war memorials for anti-slavery rebels.