Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean

Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean
Author: Gabrielle Hosein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2016-12-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783487526

Have efforts to advance women’s and men’s commitments to democratic governance, women’s rights and gender equality been successful in the Caribbean? Do they reflect local as well as international concerns and visions of gender equality? This edited collection answers these questions by focusing on women’s political leadership, electoral quota systems, national gender policies and transformational leadership as four feminist strategies that aim to engender democracy and citizenship. It offers a rich historical, comparative and ethnographic perspective on the lived experience of these strategies through case studies of Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Dominica, Jamaica and St. Lucia. Drawing on national policy debates, election campaigns, state officials’ solidarities, men’s gender consciousness and women leaders’ life histories across these five Caribbean countries, the collection assesses the successes of transnational feminist efforts, the resilience of masculinist resistances, the limits of gender mainstreaming and the possibilities for gender justice in and beyond the Caribbean today.

Gender Equality in the Caribbean

Gender Equality in the Caribbean
Author: Gemma Tang Nain
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2003
Genre: Gender identity
ISBN: 9766371660

A collection of essays by a number of outstanding women of the Caribbean on the situation of women in the region, in the period since the Beijing Conference of 1995. Examining a range of issues including education, poverty, decision-making, and violence, the authors expose continuing burdens and disadvantages faced by women.

Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender

Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender
Author: Eudine Barriteau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789766401368

This valuable contribution to the exploration of masculinity as a gender construct and its manifestation in the Caribbean provides a fundamental resource that pays special attention to the interaction of power and sexuality in the creation of masculine identities in the region. Vital reading for policy makers and teachers and students of gender studies.

Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship

Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship
Author: Yonique Campbell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000983315

Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Caribbean. Using empirical and secondary data and drawing on feminist theoretical insights, Yonique Campbell and Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers examine a range of pertinent and intersecting social, political and economic challenges facing women in the Anglo-Caribbean. The issues explored include gender-based violence, barriers to women in politics, the effects of COVID-19 on women, and debates around the illegality of abortion rights and failure to protect the health of women by allowing them to exercise autonomy over their bodies. They raise questions about systemic inequalities resulting from patriarchal gender relations, heteronormativity, women's social and economic status, and state inaction. This book is unique in its interdisciplinary analysis of gender inequality in the Anglo-Caribbean, mapping the intersection of women’s multiple identities and positionalities to determine the obstacles they encounter. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of International Relations, Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Development Studies, Sociology and Anthropology.

Enjoying Power

Enjoying Power
Author: Eudine Barriteau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Presents a fascinating range of studies on the political life of one one of the Caribbean's most imposing leaders of the twetieth century.

Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation

Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation
Author: Rawwida Baksh-Soodeen
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780850927542

Issues of socio-economic development, democracy and peace are linked to gender equality. This book argues that gender equality needs to be placed on the policy and programme agenda of the entire spectrum of peace and conflict-related initiatives and activities to achieve conflict transformation.

Commonwealth Caribbean Employment and Labour Law

Commonwealth Caribbean Employment and Labour Law
Author: Natalie G.S. Corthésy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317701747

This new edition to the series will provide an up-to-date textbook covering a wide-range of employment and labour law issues which affect the Commonwealth Caribbean. Initially the book will embark on a comparative analysis of employment and labour law in Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados, as a reference point for distinguishing the laws of other Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions. The book will continue to examine how the law operates within the legal systems of the Caribbean, taking into account the umbilical link to British jurisprudence and the persuasive precedent of other Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the impact this has had on the growth and development of the area. Commonwealth Caribbean Employment and Labour Law will be essential reading for students enrolled on Employment Law, Discrimination and Dismissal Law courses in the Caribbean.