308 p, Contents: Reputation & respectability reconsidered : a new perspective on Afro-Caribbean peasant women / Jean Besson -- Marriage & concubinage among the Sephardic merchant élite of Curaçao / Eva Abraham-Van der Mark -- Changing roles in the life cycles of women in traditional West Indian houseyards / Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher -- Women's place is every place : merging domains and women's roles in Barbuda & Dominica / Riva Berleant-Schiller and William M. Maurer -- Women in Guadeloupe : the paradoxes of reality / Huguette Dagenais -- The development & role of women's political organizations in Guyana / Linda Peake -- Neighbourhood networks & national politics among working-class Afro-Surinamese women / Rosemary Brana-Shute -- The migration experience : Nevisian women at home & abroad / Karen Fog Olwig -- Migration, development & the gender division of labour : Puerto Rico & Margarita Island, Venezuela / Janice Monk with the late Charles S. Alexander -- Small farm food production & gender in Barbados / Christine Barrow -- A profile of Grenadian women small farmers / John S. Brierley -- Women in agriculture in Trinidad : an overview / Indra S. Harry -- Women & Cuban smallholder agriculture in transition / Jean Stubbs -- Development & gender divisions of labour in the rural Eastern Caribbean / Janet H. Momsen -- Transformation in the needle trades : women in garment & textile production in early twentieth-century Trinidad / Rhoda Reddock -- Gender & ethnicity at work in a Trinidadian factory / Kevin A. Yelvington -- Women's contribution to tourism in Negril, Jamaica / Lesley McKay -- Gender & new technology in the Caribbean : new work for women? / Ruth Pearson
