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  2. Women in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women, a review of Lucille Mathurin Mair's A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp., ISBN 978-976-640-166-5 (cloth); ISBN 978-976-640-178-8 (paper). RECONSTRUCTING BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE CARIBBEAN, JSTOR.org.

  3. Feminism in the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Ambiguity regarding the term "feminism" has created difficulties for the Caribbean Feminist Movement. [1] Some feminists argue that it is necessary that the movement confront the skewed hierarchy which continues to exist and shape the relations between men and women, and as a result, women's status and access to goods and resources within society. [1]

  4. Bridget Brereton - Wikipedia

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    Bridget Brereton (born 1946) is a Trinidad and Tobago-based historian, who is Emerita Professor of History at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. [1] She is the author of works including A History of Modern Trinidad; Law, Justice and Empire: The Colonial Career of John Gorrie, 1829–1892; Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870–1900 and her articles have been widely ...

  5. ARLENE M. ROBERTS, ESQ

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    Caribbean immigrants. Then I re-visited the issue of Caribbean immigrant women and domestic workers’ rights, with the aim of expanding my opinion piece into a report. The narrative of the Caribbean nanny has been framed in a fictional or semi-autobiographical context. Some time ago, at the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, I met

  6. Women in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW), [1] is a British organization that studies women's history in context of their connection to the Americas. [2] Studying women's history allows for the restoration of lost information about how women lived, worked and participated in their cultures. [ 3 ]

  7. 10 Surprising Facts About Women's History Month - AOL

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    A demonstrator holds a sign while gathering on the National Mall during the Women's March in Washington D.C., U.S., on Jan. 21, 2017. Credit - Eric Thayer–Bloomberg—Getty Images

  8. Marie-Elena John - Wikipedia

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    She is known especially for her work in the United Nations and at local and national levels to raise awareness about the denial of inheritance rights to women. [2] [3] Marie-Elena John made history in 1986 as the first Black woman valedictorian of New York's City College (CCNY). [4]

  9. Claudia Jones - Wikipedia

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    Claudia Vera Jones (née Cumberbatch; 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist.As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". [1]