Gender in the 21st century
Subtitle: Caribbean perspectives, visions and possibilities
By: edited by Barbara Bailey and Elsa Leo-Rhynie
Contributors: Mona Academic Conference (2003 : Kingston, Jamaica)
Series: Black women writers
Publisher: Ian Randle
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 733
Subjects: Feminism; Congresses; Gender identity; Masculinity; Women in development
Notes: Compilation of papers presented at the Mona Academic Conference 2003.

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