This pioneering collection of essays brings together a description and analysis of women workers and the socio-economic systems of plantations world-wide. The plantation remains a formidable force in many areas of the world and new trends towards tree farming call for further examination of its agriculture. Women have, in the past, constituted a considerable precentage of the work force in this milieu, and continue to do so.
Using specific case studies of historical and contemporary plantations, an account is given of the history of female labour, focusing on the colonial and...
This pioneering collection of essays brings together a description and analysis of women workers and the socio-economic systems of plantations worl...
Over the years, multidisciplinary research stimuli provided by the Centres for Gender and Development have increasingly explored the nature of masculinity as a gender construct and its manifestation in the Caribbean region. Most of the authors in this volume expose a social constructivist to the international discourse in masculinity studies. Special attention is paid to the interaction of power and sexuality in the construction of masculine identities.
Over the years, multidisciplinary research stimuli provided by the Centres for Gender and Development have increasingly explored the nature of masculi...
