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Indiana University Press / Latin America Bureau, Published 1997. Paperback, xxi, 316 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition (with full number line); with black-and-white photographs, tables and figures.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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In very good condition. Pictorial paper covers carry Jack Delano photographs in green duotone. Mild shelf wear to edges and corners with light soiling to top corners. Scattered small brown flecks to lower back cover. Binding tight. Pages clean. Otherwise unmarked. Caliban, the colonized islander of The Tempest, became the governing figure of Caribbean anticolonial thought through Retamar, Cesaire and Lamming; the daughters of the title are the women that tradition left out. Thirteen essays by anthropologists, sociologists, legal scholars and literary critics take up Caribbean women's movements, informal-sector labor, Haitian vodou, Jamaican beauty pageants, salsa, and gendered colonial law across the Anglophone, Hispanic and Francophone islands. Contributors include Karen McCarthy Brown, Ruth Behar and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; the editor taught women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cover photographs by Jack Delano, the Farm Security Administration photographer who came to Puerto Rico on assignment in 1941, settled there in 1946, and served as the island government's official photographer. Contents: Introduction, Revisiting Caliban, Implications for Caribbean Feminisms (Consuelo Lopez Springfield); I. Caribbean Women and Women's Studies: Decolonizing Feminism, The Home-Grown Roots of Caribbean Women's Movements (Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert); Empowering the Mother Tongue, The Creole Movement in Guadeloupe (Cynthia J. Mesh); II. Women and Work: We Toil All the Livelong Day, Women in the English-Speaking Caribbean (Mary Johnson Osirim); Reinventing Higglering across Transnational Zones, Barbadian Women Juggle the Triple Shift (Carla Freeman); Across the Mona Strait, Dominican Boat Women in Puerto Rico (Luisa Hernandez Angueira); Daughter of Caro (Ruth Behar); III. Women and Health: The Power to Heal, Haitian Women in Vodou (Karen McCarthy Brown); Menstrual Taboos, Witchcraft Babies, and Social Relations, Women's Health Traditions in Rural Jamaica (Elisa J. Sobo); Women, Health, and Development, The Commonwealth Caribbean (Caroline Allen); IV. Women, Law, and Political Change: The Colonial Legacy, Gendered Laws in Jamaica (Suzanne LaFont and Deborah Pruitt); [Re]considering Cuban Women in a Time of Troubles (Carollee Bengelsdorf); V. Women and Popular Culture: "Asi Son", Salsa Music, Female Narratives, and Gender (De)Construction in Puerto Rico (Frances Aparicio); Face of the Nation, Race, Nationalisms, and Identities in Jamaican Beauty Pageants (Natasha B. Barnes); Contributors; Index.