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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. ARLENE M. ROBERTS, ESQ - images.huffingtonpost.com

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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

  5. History of women in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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    Cacica (Chief) Taina. Puerto Rico was originally called "Borinquen" by the Taínos, which means: "La tierra del altivo Señor", or "The Land of the Mighty Lord", [5] The Taínos were one of the Arawak peoples of South America and the Caribbean, who inhabited the island before the arrival of the Spaniards.

  6. 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

  7. La Mulâtresse Solitude - Wikipedia

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    Solitude's story is widely known throughout the Caribbean and France, inspiring many different artists and institutions to pay homage to her life. She represents the greater women's struggle against slavery, and for that she is commemorated in many different ways.

  8. History of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    War, Cooperation, and Conflict: The European Possessions in the Caribbean, 1939-1945 (1988). online Archived 2019-05-27 at the Wayback Machine; Bousquet, Ben and Colin Douglas. West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II (1991) online Archived 2020-03-22 at the Wayback Machine; Bush, Barbara. Slave Women in Caribbean Society: 1650 ...

  9. Sybil Atteck - Wikipedia

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    Sybil Marjory Atteck (3 February 1911 − 15 April 1975) [1] was a pioneering Trinidadian painter known for her work in watercolor, oils, ceramics, acrylics and mixed media. . She is celebrated as Trinidad and Tobago's "first outstanding female painter", "first Great Woman Painter", [2] and was the inspiration for, and a founding member, of the Trinidad Art Society, now known as The Art ...