The Political Economy of Gender in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean (International Political Economy Series)

Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in 20th century Caribbean societies by analyzing the operations of gender systems. She reveals the absence of gender justice and equity, and demonstrates that after 25 years of policies on women Caribbean societies still have not confronted the fundamental problem of women's subordination and the conditions that maintain this. Barriteau criticizes the strategies used by developing states to focus on women and recommends that state and society pay more attention to understanding their lives. 1. Introduction: Mapping The Terrain -- Political Culture And Demography -- Aims And Objectives -- Barbadian Political Economy: A Case Study -- Race And Racism -- The Barbados Economic Model -- Men And The State -- Gendered Development Planning -- 2. Theorizing The State And Gender Systems In The Twentieth-century Caribbean -- Theorizing Gender Systems In The Caribbean -- Gender And Gender Systems Defined -- The Methodologies Of Gender Analysis -- The Distinguishing Features Of Caribbean Gender Systems -- The Post-independent State And The Enlightenment Legacy -- The State And Modernization Strategies -- Theorizing Gender Relations In The Post-independent State -- 3. Women And Gender Relations In The Twentieth-century Caribbean -- Caribbean Women And Gender Relations -- 1900-37: Economic And Social Deprivation -- 1937-50s: Nationalist Developments -- Indo-caribbean Women In The Public Domain -- 1950s-1970s: Independence And Nation Building --^ Migration, Matrifocality And Economic Development -- Women And Political Participation -- 1970s-2000: Economic Restructuring/gender Backlash -- Conclusion: Toward The Millennium Round? -- 4. Constructing Gender Containing Women: Promoting Gender Equity In Caribbean States -- Institutional Mechanisms Within The State -- Limitations Of The Wid Discourse -- Liberal Feminism And Women-in-development -- Socialist Feminism And Women-in-development -- Gender-and-development And Women? -- Gender And Policy Confusion In The Caribbean -- Caribbean Male Marginality And Gender Equity -- 5. Gender Systems In An Independent Caribbean State: The Barbadian Case -- Colonial Development Planning -- Political Parties And The Creation Of Gender Ideologies -- Constructing Gender Roles In Economic Development -- Women's Fertility And Reproducing The Labor Force -- 6. Women, The Economy And The State -- The State And Entrepreneurial Development -- Profile Of Women Entrepreneurs --^ Race/racism And Ethnicity -- The Business Environment And Women's Economic Agency -- Industrial Sectors -- Ownership Patterns -- Sources Of Investment Capital -- Major Problems Experienced -- Perceptions On Size Of Operations -- Assessment Of Performance -- Characteristics For Success -- Government Assistance -- Macroeconomic Linkages -- Sources Of Support -- Networking -- Work/home Role Conflict -- Future Of Women In Entrepreneurship -- Rethinking Women's Economic Behavior -- 7. Rethinking Gender And Development For The Twenty-first Century -- Trinidad And Tobago: From Wid To Gad -- Jamaica: Using Gender Analysis To Improve Women's Condition -- Barbados: The Invisibility Of Programming On Women -- The Limitations Of Existing Research -- Rethinking Development Policy -- Revising Theoretical Claims -- Postmodernist Feminist Openings -- Future Directions In Research On Gender -- Research On Men And Masculinities -- Women And The Economy. Eudine Barriteau. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 185-201) And Index. Extrait de la couverture : "Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious contradictory position of women in twentieth-century Caribbean societies by analysing the operations of gender systems. She situates her analysis at the juncture where regional experiences with rapid changes in the global political economy intersect with fundamental developments in the social relations of gender. She reveals the absence of gender justice and equity, and demonstrates that after twenty-five years of policies on women Caribbean societies still have not confronted the fundamental problem of women's subordination and the conditions that maintain this. Instead they are driven increasingly by the idea that Caribbean men are marginalized and are in need of new policy directives by the state. The strategies used by developping states to focus on women are criticized as inadequate and it is recommended that state and society pay more attention to understanding the lives of women, even as they must support research on issues of men and masculinities in Caribbean societies." Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in twentieth century Caribbean societies through analyzing the operations of gender systems. She reveals the absence of gender justice and equity, and demonstrates that after twenty-five years of policies on women, Caribbean societies still have not confronted the fundamental problem of women's subordination and the conditions that maintain this. The strategies used by developing states to focus on women are criticised as inadequate and it is recommended that state and society pay more attention to understanding the lives of women. "This is a timely contribution to the debates on gender issues in the Caribbean. .this book would seve as an excellent textbook for undergraduate students in courses on gender and development, as it pushes against commonly accepted tenets of gender relations in the Caribbean. Barriteau is to be commended for writing a thoughtful book that pushes against conventional perceptions of Caribbean women as essentially favoured economic and political citizens."--Lyla Brown, Black and Asian Studies Association Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in 20th-century Caribbean societies through analyzing the operations of gender systems. The strategies used by developing states to focus on women are criticized as inadequate In this book I investigate the construct and operations of relations of gender in the political economy of the modernizing, twentieth-century Caribbean.