Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change, by Dalea Bean
Journal: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
Year: 2019

Jamaica has a proud female military tradition, including Nanny of the Maroons and Mary Seacole, who took a nursing expedition to the Crimea, but aside from Ben Bousquet and Colin Douglas, West Indian Women at War (1991), little has been written about Caribbean women's experiences of war.Published on the centenary of the Armistice, Dalea Bean's study is therefore a significant contribution which raises our understanding of gender, race, and class during wartime and which fully draws the colonial