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This is a list of women artists who were born in Jamaica or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Anita "Margarita" Mahfood (died 2 January 1965) was a dancer, actress, and singer in Jamaica.She was called "the famous Rhumba queen" [2] and headlined performances. She also performed reggae music, writing and singing her own music, one of the first women in Jamaica to do so.
Specifically Valerie Facey founded the Mill Press, which has 'produced memorable, award-winning books' about Jamaican art, poetry, biography, cuisine, history, and so much more. [1] Laura Facey's family continues to instill the importance of representing their home country and giving a voice to the unheard, which is a central theme within Laura ...
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.
It includes women activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Jamaican women activists" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Carolyn Cooper CD (born 20 November 1950) [1] is a Jamaican author, essayist and literary scholar. She is a former professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Margaret Cezair-Thompson was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, where she attended Saint Andrew's High School for Girls.She is the daughter of Dudley J. Thompson, noted Jamaican barrister QC, who served as a Jamaican Government Minister and then as a diplomat (Ambassador-at- Large to Africa, stationed in Nigeria) and Genevieve Cezair-Thompson.
Cain was not the first woman licensed in Jamaica, in 1952 an American, Earsley Barnett, received the first pilot licence granted to a woman in Jamaica; Cain was the first Jamaican born woman to receive a licence. Cain worked as a charter pilot for Jamaica Air Taxi (JAT) - having started the job before March 1976. [3]