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The book was conceived because of a widely felt need to bring together scattered studies of women in all Caribbean language groups. This book examines the lives of women in the multicultural society of the contemporary Caribbean where one-third of household heads are women.

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• Preface
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• Section 1 Private & Public Spheres of Women's Lives
• Part 1 The Domestic Domain & the Community
• 2 Reputation & respectability reconsidered: a new perspective on Afro-Caribbean peasant women
• 3 Marriage & concubinage amoung the Sephardic merchant elite of Curacao
• 4 Changing roles in the life cycles of women in traditional West Indian houseyards
• 5 Women's place is every place: merging domains and women's roles in Barbuda & Dominica
• Part 2 The Intersection of Reproduction & Production
• 6 Women in Guadeloupe: the paradoxes of reality
• 7 The development & role of women's political organizations in Guyana
• 8 Neighbourhood networks & national politics amoung working-class Afro-Surinamese women
• 9 The migration experience: Nevisian women at home & abroad
• 10 Migration, development & the gender division of labour: Puerto Rico & Margarita Island, Venezuela
• Section 2 Economic Roles of Caribbean Women
• Part 1 Rural Employment
• 11 Small farm food production & gender in Barbados
• 12 A profile of Grenadian women small farmers
• 13 Women in agriculture in Trinidad: An overview
• 14 Women & Duban smallholder agriculture in transition
• 15 Development & gender divisions of labour in the rural Eastern Caribbean
• Part 2 Urban Employment
• 16 Tranformation in the needle trades: women in garment & textile production in early twentieth-century Trinidad
• 17 Gender & ethnicity at work in a Trinidadian factory
• 18 Women's contribution to tourism in Negril, Jamaica
• 19 Gender & new technology in the Caribbean: new work for women?
• Index

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CHOICE Review

A collection of 18 essays on many aspects of women's lives in the contemporary Caribbean, specifically, in Jamaica, Curacao, Montserrat, Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Suriname, Nevis, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad, and Cuba. Momsen, a geographer, provides an introduction. Four essays are concerned with women in the domestic domain and the community, and five with the intersection of reproduction and production. The other nine essays focus on women's changing economic roles in rural and urban employment. Common themes include the interaction of race, class, and gender differentials, the multiplicity of women's work, and the contradiction between the public activities of women and the patriarchal ideology that restricts them to domestic roles. The topics are diverse, but the essays consistently meet a high standard of research and clarity. Although each essay has a list of references, a comprehensive bibliography would have been useful. Highly recommended, alongside Olive Senior's Working Miracles (CH, Sep'92) for multidisciplinary Caribbean and women's studies collections at the upper-division undergraduate and graduate levels. O. N. Bolland Colgate University