Negotiating gender, policy and politics in the Caribbean : feminist strategies, masculinist resistance and transformational possibilities /: feminist strategies, masculinist resistance and transformational possibilities. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Jane Parpart.
• Editors: Hosein, Gabrielle; Parpart, Jane L
• Contents: Introduction: Rethinking Gendered Negotiations in Caribbean Policy and Politics, <span style="font-style:italic;">Gabrielle Hosein and Jane Parpart / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part I: Women’s Political Leadership: Possibilities and Limits for Women / 1. Crossing over the Barriers: A Historical Journey of Women’s Political Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean, <span style="font-style:italic;">Beverly Shirley /2. Women’s Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago, Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations, <span style="font-style:italic;">Aleah N. Ranjitsingh / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part II: National Gender Policies: Negotiating Masculinities in Gender Mainstreaming / 3. Historicizing National Gender Policies in the English Speaking Caribbean, <span style="font-style:italic;">Deborah McFee / 4. Masculinities and the Practice of Dominica’s ; National Gender Policy, <span style="font-style:italic;">Ramona Biholar / 5. The Patriarchal State and the Development of Gender Policy in Jamaica, <span style="font-style:italic;">Maziki Thame and Dhanaraj Thakur / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part III: Gender Quotas: Parliamentary ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Provisions without Power? / 6. Getting to One-Third? Creating Legislative Access for Women to Political Space in Guyana, <span style="font-style:italic;">Natalie Persadie / 7. Advancing Gender Justice? The Opportunities, Resistances, and Limitations of Guyana’s Quota System, <span style="font-style:italic;">Iman Khan / <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part IV: Transformational Leadership: Feminist Pedagogies, Neo-liberal Empowerment / 8. Feminist/Womanist Advocacy Toward Transformational Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean: The Interplay of Individual and Collective Agency, <span style="font-style:italic;">Shirley Campbell / 9. Enactments, Contestations, and Possibilities of Women’s ; Transformational Leadership in the Anglophone Caribbean, <span style="font-style:italic;">Denise Blackstock /Afterword
• Publisher Details: London New York : Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 220 pages.)
• Subjects: 305.4209729; Political Science: Political Ideologies / Democracy; Feminism -- Caribbean Area; Women's rights -- Caribbean Area; Sex discrimination -- Caribbean Area; Women -- Political activity -- Caribbean Area; Feminism; Sex discrimination; Women -- Political activity; Women's rights; Political Science: World / Caribbean & Latin American; Caribbean Area
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783487523; 1783487526
• Related ISBNs: 9781783487509; 178348750X; 9781783487516; 1783487518
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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