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Jamaica Ladies

Author : Christine Walker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469655276
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 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.

Women's Health Survey 2016: Jamaica

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.

Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica

Author : Augusta Lynn Bolles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793615578
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 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.

A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica

Author : Lucille Mathurin Mair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 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.

Downtown Ladies

Author : Gina A. Ulysse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226841235
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 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 351 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.

Jamaica Women in Culture, Business & Travel

Author : World Trade Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (966 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:

Jamaican Women and the World Wars

Author : Dalea Bean
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319685856
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 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.

Facts about Jamaican Women

Author : Jamaica. Department of Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/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:

The Book of Night Women

Author : Marlon James
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101011319
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Night Women written by Marlon James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breathtakingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.

Heading the Household

Author : Lilieth Antonnette Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Heading the Household written by Lilieth Antonnette Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Prison

Author : Aldrie Henry-Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789768103116
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Women in Prison written by Aldrie Henry-Lee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lionheart Gal

Author : Honor Ford Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/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:

The Pursuit of Happiness

Author : Bianca C. Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372134
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Happiness written by Bianca C. Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens. Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power differentials within the African diaspora.

Women in Jamaica

Author : George W. Roberts
Publisher : Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Women in Jamaica written by George W. Roberts and published by Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Higglers in Kingston

Author : Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826501907
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Higglers in Kingston written by Winnifred Brown-Glaude and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort to realize their entrepreneurial dreams. In Higglers in Kingston, Winnifred Brown-Glaude puts the reader on the ground in frenetic urban Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. She explores the lives of informal market laborers, called "higglers," across the city as they navigate a corrupt and inaccessible "official" Jamaican economy. But rather than focus merely on the present-day situation, she contextualizes how Jamaica arrived at this point, delving deep into the island's history as a former colony, a home to slaves and masters alike, and an eventual nation of competing and conflicted racial sectors. Higglers in Kingston weaves together contemporary ethnography, economic history, and sociology of race to address a broad audience of readers on a crucial economic and cultural center.

Contested Bodies

Author : Sasha Turner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229405X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Contested Bodies written by Sasha Turner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence—Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.

Dead Woman Pickney

Author : Yvonne Shorter Brown
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771125489
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Dead Woman Pickney written by Yvonne Shorter Brown and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author’s quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother’s people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father’s brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, “finding mother”, constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember.