Engendering Caribbean History

Abstract

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.