| Contents |
Feminist scholarship and society / Joycelin Massiah -- Feminist activism : the CARICOM experience / Peggy Antrobus -- Gender, history education and development in Jamaica / Verene Shepherd -- Gender and schooling : implications for teacher education Jeanette Morris -- Male marginalisation revisited / Errol Miller -- Old (female) glass ceilings and new (male) looking glasses : challenging gender privileging in the Caribbean / Mark Figueroa -- Fatherhood in risk environments / Wilma Bailey, Clement Branche, Jean Jackson, Amy Lee -- Caribbean masculinities and femininities : the impact of globalisation on cultural representations / Rhoda Reddock -- Gender politics and media production / Marjan de Bruin -- Masculinity, the political economy of the body, and patriarchal power in the Caribbean / Linden Lewis -- 'Mama, is that you?' : erotic disguise in the films Dancehall Queen and Babymother / Carolyn Cooper -- Shake that 'booty' in Jesus' name : the possibilities of a liberation theology of the body for the body of Christ in Jamaica / June Ann Castello -- Women and work : policy implications of ILO conventions / Leith L. Dunn -- Challenge of gender and the labour market after 30 years of CARICOM / Orville W. Taylor -- Environment : prospects for a gender responsive approach to policies and programmes / Winsome Townsend -- Female emancipation and the sewing machine / Velma Pollard. |
| Contents |
Shifting centres and moving margins : the ISS experience / Saskia E. Wieringa -- Shifting centres and moving margins : the UWI experience / Hermoine C. McKenzie -- Gender studies : interdisciplinary and pedagogical challenges / Elsa Leo-Rhynie -- Constructing feminist knowledge in the Commonwealth Caribbean in the era of globalisation / Violet Eudine Barriteau -- Gender equity, information and communications technologies and connectivity / Fay Durrant -- Shifting the paradigm, erecting and re-erecting boundaries : case studies from the scientific world / Grace Sirju-Charran -- Different imagination : a visual essay / Patricia Mohammed -- Mirror, mirror : a feminist examination of the construction of beauty and body image / Suzanne Marguerite Charles -- Ambivalent aspirations : assertion and accommodation in Indo-Trinidadian girls' lives / Gabrielle Jamela Hosein -- Gender and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean / Michelle V. Davis -- Governance, leadership and decision-making : prospects for Caribbean women / Maxine Henry-Wilson -- Gender, feminism and constitutional reform in the Caribbean / Tracy Robinson -- Caribbean experience in the international women's movement : issues, process, constraints and possibilities / Barbara Bailey -- Bureaucratising feminism : charting Caribbean women's centrality within the margins / Michelle Rowley -- Feminisms, gender studies, activism : the elusive triad / Linnette Vassell. |
| General note | Compilation of papers presented at the Mona Academic Conference 2003. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008396443 |
| ISBN | 9766371857 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 9766371881 (pbk.) |
