Title: Centering woman
First published: November 1998
Description: "Caribbean women - black, white and brown, free and enslaved, migrants and creoles, rich and poor - are assembled in this book and their lives examined as they battled both against male domination and among themselves for social advantage." "Professor Beckles uses the method of narrative biography with its appealing sense of immediacy of women's language, script and social politics, to expose the gender order of Caribbean slave society as it determined and defined the everyday lives of women. He also seeks to explore the effectiveness of women's actions as they searched for freedom, material betterment, justice and social security."--Jacket.
Subjects: History, Women, Social conditions, Slavery, Women slaves, Women, caribbean area, Women, history, Slavery, caribbean area, Caribbean area, social conditions, Caribbean area, history, Femmes esclaves, Conditions sociales, Femmes, Histoire, Esclavage, Enslaved women, Women slaves--social conditions, Women slaves--caribbean area--social conditions, Women--history, Women--caribbean area--history--17th century, Women--caribbean area--history--18th century, Women--caribbean area--history--19th century, Slavery--history, Slavery--caribbean area--history, Ht1071 .b44 1999, 305.42/09729
Places: Caribbean Area
Time periods: 17th century, 19th century, 18th century
LC classification: HT1071 .B44 1999