Women In Jamaica

Author : Christine Walker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469655276
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamaica Ladies written by Christine Walker and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing and expanding slave labor regime by acquiring enslaved men, women, and children to protect their own tenuous claims to status and independence. Female colonists employed slaveholding as a means of advancing themselves socially and financially on the island. By owning others, they wielded forms of legal, social, economic, and cultural authority not available to them in Britain. In addition, slaveholding allowed free women of African descent, who were not far removed from slavery themselves, to cultivate, perform, and cement their free status. Alongside their male counterparts, women bought, sold, stole, and punished the people they claimed as property and vociferously defended their rights to do so. As slavery's beneficiaries, these women worked to stabilize and propel this brutal labor regime from its inception.

Author : Lucille Mathurin Mair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica written by Lucille Mathurin Mair and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exposure of women as agents of history - a path-breaking achievement at a time when Caribbean historiography ignored women. The white woman consumed, the coloured woman served and the black woman laboured.

Author : Carol Watson Williams
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Health Survey 2016: Jamaica written by Carol Watson Williams and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was specifically designed to collect information on women’s health and their experiences of violence in Jamaica. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was used to collect the data, including a household survey, in-depth interviews and focus group sessions. The household survey resulted in 1,340 respondents, with a household response rate of 85.5 percent and an individual response rate of 65.9 percent. The questionnaire covered, inter alia, general and reproductive health; attitudes towards gender roles; experiences with intimate partner violence; impacts and coping with intimate partner violence; and experiences with non-partner violence.

Author : Augusta Lynn Bolles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793615578
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica written by Augusta Lynn Bolles and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach, A. Lynne Bolles examines Jamaican women tourist workers and their workplaces in Negril, Jamaica. A major component of Negril’s tourism success is the labor of women tourist workers, ranging from housekeepers to hotel and business owners. Bolles’s ethnographic research examines key aspects of women’s labor in the tourist industry through the lenses of class, color, education, and training. Through the narratives of thirty interlocutors, Bolles focuses on the prescience of emotional labor and face-to-face encounters, investigating these women’s ideas about tourism on the local level and their wariness of the changing physical environment as a result of tourism expansion. For more information, check out A Conversation with A. Lynn Bolles: Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica.

Author : World Trade Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamaica Women in Culture, Business & Travel written by World Trade Press and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dalea Bean
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319685856
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamaican Women and the World Wars written by Dalea Bean and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the important, yet often forgotten, roles that Jamaican women played in the World Wars. Predicated on the notion that warfare has historically been an agent of change, Dalea Bean contends that traces of this truism were in Jamaica and illustrates that women have historically been part of the war project, both as soldiers and civilians. This ground-breaking work fills a gap in the historiography of Jamaican women by positioning the World Wars as watershed periods for their changing roles and status in the colony. By unearthing critical themes such as women’s war work as civilians, recruitment of men for service in the British West India Regiment, the local suffrage movement in post-Great War Jamaica, and Jamaican women’s involvement as soldiers in the British Army during the Second World War, this book presents the most extensive and holistic account of Jamaican women’s involvement in the wars.

Author : Gina A. Ulysse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226841235
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Downtown Ladies written by Gina A. Ulysse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs—who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970s, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and global economies. Gina Ulysse carefully explores how ICIs, determined to be self-employed, struggle with government regulation and other social tensions to negotiate their autonomy. Informing this story of self-fashioning with reflections on her own experience as a young Haitian anthropologist, Ulysse combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world.

Author : Jamaica. Department of Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facts about Jamaican Women written by Jamaica. Department of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erna Brodber
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789766375645
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World is a High Hill written by Erna Brodber and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fair-skinned Beverley is ridiculed in Jamaica but has the last laugh when she returns as the wife of a diplomat. Kishwana is from the inner city but is the beneficiary of uptown benevolence. Lily s life changes when her boyfriend leaves her for a white woman. Rosa gets a dream that she should take care of Zackie; and Valerie, with little education, turns to domestic work to eke out a living. These are just some of the characters who inhabit Erna Brodber s collection of short stories about Jamaican women. Engaging and absorbing, yet at once both sobering and triumphant, The World is a High Hill, demonstrates the multifaceted nature of the Jamaican woman, faced with all the trials the high hill of the world presents, at times a steeper climb for some more than for others. The stories are preceded with an enlightening foreword by Professor Verene Shepherd and close with an equally instructive interview with the author by Professor Carolyn Cooper. In this collection Brodber departs from her usual long form novel. She remains however, an uncompromising and empowering voice in Caribbean and black literature. " "

Author : Honor Ford Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lionheart Gal written by Honor Ford Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: