CGDS is committed to a programme of teaching, research and outreach that:

• Questions historically accepted theories and explanations about society and human behaviour.

• Seeks an understanding of the world which takes women, their lives and achievements into account.

• Identifies the origins of power differences between women and men, and the division of human characteristics along gender lines.

CGDS Cave Hill focuses on:

• Building Caribbean feminist scholarship.

• Securing the foundation established within the academy on women studies and gender analysis as a valid discipline for teaching and research.

• Contributing to scholarship on Caribbean masculinity.

• Building awareness among women and men of the pervasiveness and outcomes of unequal relations of gender.

• Providing a forum for debate, discussion and dissemination of information on all aspects of gender in Caribbean society.

• Producing research to influence policy that seeks to create a just society for Caribbean children, women and men.

The Centre's specific objectives are to:

• Introduce and maintain an integrated, interdisciplinary programme of gender and development studies including incorporation of gender issues in the content of disciplines within the University.

• Generate research data on women and/or gender-related issues in the Caribbean.

• Develop and facilitate a programme of outreach to the Caribbean community including linkages with, and empowerment of, national and regional institutions concerned with gender and development.

PUBLICATIONS

To purchase copies of the following, either 

• e-mail: gender@uwichill.edu.bb 

or

• write: The Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados.

BOOKS

Eudine Barriteau and Alan Cobley.  Enjoying Power: Eugenia Charles and Political Leadership in the Commonwealth Caribbean.  The UWI Press, 2006.  ISBN 976-640-191-7/ 976-640-191-8

Eudine Barriteau. Ed. Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean.  The UWI Press, Kingston 2003.  ISBN 976-640-136-5

Eudine Barriteau and Alan Cobley. Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow Social Change and International Development. The UWI Press, Kingston 2001. ISBN 976-640-101-2

Eudine Barriteau. The Political Economy of Gender in the Twentieth Century Caribbean. Palgrave International, London and New York 2001. ISBN: 0-333-7328-0

WORKING PAPER SERIES

Cost: BDS$20.00 (locally) / US$12.00 (regionally) / US$20.00 (internationally).  Please make all cheques payable to: University of the West Indies.

• Working Paper No. 14 Gender, Generation and Memory: Remembering a Future Caribbean ISBN 978-976-621-157-4 By Alissa Trotz

As a Caribbean feminist scholar, Dr. Trotz mines the intersecting sites of diaspora, identities and constantly shifting Caribbean political economy.  In the process she offers a searing assessment of a creeping social fragmentation in the region facilitated by the politics of polarization and division.  While maintaining we need to move past defensiveness and engage each other, she proffers a different future and concludes with the gift of sociality.  It is the social blue print from the indigenous Wai Wai of Guyana on how we can remain each other’s keepers.  She uses three dimentions of Dame Nita’s public life to organize the paper Gender, Generation and Memory: Remembering a Future Caribbean.  These themes are the Social Geography of a Pan-Caribbean Identity, Caribbean Movement and Political Conflict, and Social Justice and Gender Equality.  Examining the operations of gender in each of these themes, Trotz explores how a collective social amnesia has worked to effect the marginalization of Caribbean peoples by deploying the politics of polarization and division.  She also suggests ways in which Caribbean peoples might rework narratives of exclusion through a preliminary discussion of counter-memories embedded in practices that do not follow the logic of borders internally or externally implied.

• Working Paper No.13 Unsettling Masculinity in the Caribbean: Facing a Future Without Guarantees ISBN: 976-621-129-9 By Linden Lewis

  As a Caribbean Scholar working at the intersection of Sociology and Political Economy, Linden Lewis presents a thorough analysis on the fluid ideologies shaping masculinity in the Caribbean.  Lewis’ purpose is to “disabuse the reader of the notion of the fixity of masculinity.” Lewis states that masculinity is always articulated in opposition to femininity and argues that “Masculinity cannot be distilled down to some essence, which is universal and transhistorical.  A number of social forces, social class, race, ethnicity, religion or culture may intervene in determining how masculinity is practiced and experienced by different men.”  Lewis’ intention “is not so much to unsettle masculinity, but to destabilize certain traditional meanings and understandings of masculinity.”  In the process, he reveals that the status of men and masculinity is inextricably linked to the crises and contradictions of capitalism, a phenomenon that is often overlooked in popular discussions on Caribbean men in crises.  Lewis interrogates unemployment, homosexuality and homophobia, and sexual dysfunctions as key sites where masculinity is destabilised.  In the process the paper provides an ontological overview of the contested meanings of manhood in the region and does so by surveying Caribbean literature and political economy.  Lewis brilliantly dissects the works of Caribbean writers and Prime Ministers to challenge the reader to recognize that masculinity is always shifting, adjusting and regrouping.

• Working Paper No.12 Women and Islam in Africa in the 21st Century: An African Perspective ISBN: 976-621-135-3 By Fatou Sow

As a Muslim feminist and researcher, Professor Sow is concerned about the contested political use of Islam as a tool of power, where women's bodies often become sites of struggle between political forces as in the Muslim Northern Nigerian States.  Professor Sow provides the five basic pillars of Islam and raises a series of questions related to secularism, Islamic customs and laws.  Does religion shape society?  Does it reflect it?  What is the role of religion in the making of rules, laws and politics which influence women's lives, their position within society, and gender relations within society and the family?  Why does the State refer to religion in countries claiming their secularisation and their efforts of economic and social modernisation?  The compatibility of Islam with development as modernity has been a debate issue for years within Muslim and Non Muslim intellectual arenas.  Can modernity not comply with religion, especially with Islam?  What do we mean today by modernity?

• Working Paper No.11 The Darker Side of Black Mas(K)Ulinities: The Representation of the Black Male in Film  ISBN:  976-621-128-0  By Kelvin Quintyne

In this paper Kelvin Quintyne examines the constructions of black masculinity in film from a Derridian, deconstructive perspective.  Jacques Derrida's theorising of the working of the "dangerous supplements" in language/discourse and Patrick Fuery's insights into how this could be incorporated into analyses of film are the frameworks that underpin the analysis of the films in this study.  A short survey of films from Jamaica, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Martinique forms the main focus.  The study is as much a philosophical analysis of the nature of representation in the light of Derridian deconstruction, as it is an investigation of race, gender and cultural identity from a postcolonial perspective.  The focus on black masculinity arises out of the intersection of subjectivity, Quintyne's personal location as a black Caribbean man, and his observation of the relatively small volume of research in this area.  He argues that black men are stereotyped as dangerous, mysterious, sexually aggressive and violent.  He explores how these films deconstruct these images, highlighting not only the diversity of black masculinities (that are represented), but their relationships with the construction of white masculinity and black femininity.  Not only does this study point out how constructions of black masculinity deconstruct themselves, but how this deconstruction also occurs in the relationship with filmic representation and "reality".

• Working Paper No.10 Producers, Reproducers and Rebels: Grenadian Slave Women 1783-1838.  ISBN: 976-621-115-9  By Nicole Phillip

In this paper Dr. Phillip examines three important questions in relation to Grenadian slave women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  She questions whether slave women provided the dominant agricultural labour on the sugar cane plantation.  She assesses the success of the planter's attempts to increase the slave population by natural means.  Finally she investigates the different forms of resistance that enslaved women took against slavery.  Dr. Phillip demonstrates that enslaved women in Grenada were not only valuable sources of labour but as reproducers of future labour power.  As the threats to end the slave trade became apparent, West Indian planters sought to conserve the existing slave population by devising measures to increase the population through various strategies.  Dr. Phillip argues that these measures failed because of the resistance of the enslaved women.  Dr. Phillip gives the enslaved women agency by showing how they retaliated against the system of slavery in a number of ingenious ways.

• Working Paper No. 9  Changing Skill Demands in Manufacturing and the Impact on Caribbean Female Workers.  ISBN: 976-621-096-9  By Daphne Jayasinghe

Daphne Jayasinghe reviews some of the policy recommendations that advocate a shift in manufacturing away from low cost, labour intensive production towards the output of goods and services where high productivity, high value and improved technology provide the competitive edge. She assesses the degree to which this shift has taken place in Barbados, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.  Jayasinghe reviews the changes in output from high skilled manufacturing and female dominated manufacturing in the three countries and makes a theoretical analysis of the ways in which gender issues have shaped women's experience of employment in the manufacturing sector and explore the implications for women of the changes in the nature of industry in the Caribbean.  She argues that the employment created through a growth in manufacturing has not contributed to sustainable human development and there should be the recognision that labour markets reflect gender subordination found in the wider society, and this acts as an obstacle to the development of women's skills.  Ms Jayasinghe contends that there should be a recognision that women face obstacles to employment in skilled work that men do not face and such gender biases must be uncovered and their inherent inequalities challenged.

•  Working paper No. 8 In Memory of my Ancestors:  Contributions of Afro-Jamaican Female Migrants in Port Limon, Costa Rica 1872-1890.  ISBN: 976-621-097-7  By Carmen Hutchinson Miller

Carmen Hutchinson Miller makes visible the participation of Afro-Jamaican women in the period of the construction of the railroad in Costa Rica in the late nineteenth century.  Hutchinson Miller's argument is that Caribbean and Costa Rican historians have paid insufficient attention to the social, cultural and economic contribution of those Afro-Jamaican women and demonstrates that they were not passive actors during the economic development of Port Limon and that their active participation was meaningful as that of men.  Although their productive, reproductive and organizational roles within the private sphere were not adequately recognized, they were as crucial as the men's input in contributing to the development of the society.  Ms Hutchinson Miller's paper makes a meaningful contribution to understanding women's economic and social investment in the nineteenth century Hispanic Caribbean.  While it provides insights in the lives and activities of these women, it underscores the very migratory character of Caribbean societies.

• Working paper No. 7 Impunity, Masculinity and Heterosexism in the Discourse on Male Endangerment: An African Feminist Perspective.  ISBN: 976-621-092-6  By Patricia McFadden

Patricia McFadden examines some of the legacies that have made it possible for Africans on and off the continent to survive as a people.  In a very compelling, comprehensive and intellectually engaging analysis, she problematized the pursuit and achievement of freedom relative and incomplete as it still is.  She examines the question as to the attainment of freedom for African women is perceived as a threat by the men with whom they share unconditionally the oldest experiences of racist violation.  This interrogation of the pursuits of freedom leads to the crux of McFadden's presentation.  She uses it as an opening to lay bare the continuing hegemonic and patriarchal themes embedded in new nationalist discourses.  In the process she offers a radical re-conceptualisation and application of the concepts of gender and impunity.  The former she sees as a social product that socially and politically emerges out of the struggles of women for freedom and inclusion.

• Working Paper No. 6 Whither Work? A Comparative Analysis of Women and Work in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Canada in the New Era of Globalisation.  ISBN: 976-621-091-8 By Ann Denis

Ann Denis examines what economists and policy makers mean by work and questions the way that this definition is reconfigured in this new phase of globalisation in both the Commonwealth Caribbean and Canada. She critiques the widely held but overly restrictive definition which equates with revenue generating activity and argues for a more all encompassing and reality-based definition.  She proposes a feminist definition that exceeds the boundaries of what is commonly understood as work.  This new definition incorporates women’s un-remunerated reproductive and caring labour in the home and community. The paper also examines women’s work in globalisation in two countries and emphasizes the historical and societal restrictions and impositions that shape women’s contemporary experiences of economic activity. The paper makes a critical contribution to our understanding of women’s economic activities nationally and internationally.  

• Working Paper No.5 When the Closet is a Region: Homophobia, Heterosexism and Nationalism in the Commonwealth Caribbean.  ISBN: 976-621-090-X By Tara Atluri

Tara Atluri firmly believes that a women's movement that remains unconnected to issues of homophobia is failing to examine the root ideologies upon which patriarchy and sexism are based, and is therefore patching things up without ever challenging the source of the problem.

• Working Paper No.4 Examining the Issues of Men, Male Marginalisation and Masculinity in the Caribbean: Policy Implications.  ISBN: 976-021-059-4  By Eudine Barriteau

Are Caribbean men marginalized?  Eudine Barriteau challenges the male marginalization thesis posed by Errol Miller making a thorough analysis of the thesis to demonstrate that it is flawed. She offers a framework for assessing marginalizasion and analyses the popular belief that co-education reproduces male marginalization by examining the work of a number of UWI scholars.  She concludes that Caribbean men are not marginalized and recommends national policy that is shaped by a commitment to gender justice and gender equity that will not discriminate or tolerate conditions of discrimination for either sex.

• Working Paper No.3 Nuancing Globalisation or Mainstreaming the Downstream or Reforming Reform.  ISBN: 976-621-058-6  By Devaki Jain

Devaki Jain argues that the concept of globalisation needs to be nuanced, and sees the women's movement and NGOs as ideally situated to do this.  Using a feminist lens, she reviews major developments in the global political economy and identifies new transformative behaviours to tame the adverse impact of globalisation on countries in the South.

• Working Paper No.2  UWI: A Progressive Institution for Women?  ISBN: 976- 621-037-3  By Marlene Hamilton

• Working Paper No.1  Engendering Local Government in the Commonwealth Caribbean.  ISBN: 976–8083-07-5  By Eudine Barriteau

FORTHCOMING WORKING PAPERS

• Working Paper No. 15 “Charting Our Course: Issues and Responses in Caribbean Development ” By Keturah Cecilia Babb

• Working paper No. 16 “Gender and Governance in the Commonwealth Caribbean.”  By Eudine Barriteau

MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

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2006-2009

Ms Joan Cuffie -(Ag.) Head, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Cave Hill

Ms Carmen Hutchinson Miller -Editorial Assistant, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Cave Hill

Ms Charmaine Crawford - Assistant Editor, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Cave Hill

Ms Sheila Stuart - Social Affairs Officer-Gender ECLAC

Professor Patricia Mohammed - Professor, Centre for Gender and Development studies UWI, St. Augustine

Dr Keith Nurse- Director Shirdath Ranphal Centre for International Trade, Law, Policy and Services, UWI, Cave Hill

Dr Letnie Rock - Head/Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work, UWI, Cave Hill

Dr Jessica Byron - Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work, UWI, Mona

Dr April Bernard - Lecturer, Department of Government, sociology and Social Work, UWI, Cave Hill

CALL FOR PAPERS

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CRITERIA FOR PUBLICATION IN WORKING PAPER SERIES

The goal of the Working Paper Series is to encourage debate and disseminate information on a wide range of issues of women and gender studies and Caribbean Development.

The work must be relevant to advancing knowledge on Caribbean societies and countries in the South.  It should also contribute to feminist scholarship/gender studies including masculinity studies.

·        Submitted papers are to be sent to members of the editorial committee for assessment and review.  Since the paper can be a work in progress, most articles are published once the author is willing to undertake whatever  revisions are recommended.

·        Papers published in the Working Paper Series can be published elsewhere.  We however require acknowledgement of the earlier publication in the series.

·        Authors receive 4 copies of their published paper.  Additional copies available at a 30% discount.

CGDS, Cave Hill publishes at least two working papers per year.

Submissions should be sent to:  The Editor, Working Paper Series Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Cave Hill, P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados. 

Tel: 246-417-4490/91/92/93 Fax: 246-424-3822  E-mail: gender@uwichill.edu.bb

RESEARCH

Research is the fastest growing area of work at the Centre. Ongoing research includes:

Caribbean Women Catalysts for Change: The Regional and International Contributions of Outstanding Caribbean Women is the main research project of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies.  It has three dimensions, one of which is research on the public service of outstanding Caribbean women who have contributed to change in key areas.  This arm of the project researches, documents and disseminates analysis on the lives of the women selected.  To date, the Centre has published two books - the first, Stronger Surer Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow Social Change and International Development (2001) and the second, Enjoying Power: Eugenia Charles and Political Leadership in the Commonwealth Caribbean (2006). The Centre has now selected The Honourable Madame Justice Désirée Bernard, Caribbean Court of Justice, as the subject of research for Phase 3 on the theme of Gender and Caribbean Jurisprudence.

Gender and Livehoods: CGDS:NBU in collaboration with the Hope Foundation, is undertaking the Socio-economic Impact on Women who are Caregivers of Chronically Ill Children project which will investigate the needs of women who are responsible for the care of children suffering from chronic diseases; and examine the corresponding challenges they confront with their livelihoods. The project will provide policy makers and health care workers with the vital qualitative and quantitative information on the socio-economic challenges experienced by women who are primary caregivers.

Gender and the Economy: The Impact of a Stabilization and Structural Adjustment Programme On Four Communities In Barbados    This project examines the impact of structural adjustment policies on four communities in Barbados. It intends to create a database of quantitative and qualitative data on the differential effect of macroeconomic policies on socioeconomic groups differentiated by class, gender and race.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Peggy Antrobus, BA (Brist), Cert Social Work (Birm), D.Ed (Amherst), Past Tutor / Coordinator, Women and Development Unit, School of Continuing Studies, UWI, Cave Hill.

Cecilia Babb, BA (UWI) Senior Programme Officer, Caribbean Policy Development Centre.

Jeanette Bell, BA (Essex), MA (The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), Programme Coordinator, Women and Development Unit, School of Continuing Studies, UWI, Cave Hill.

Denise Carter-Taylor, BSc (Andrews University), MA (NYU), Health Education Officer, Ministry of Health and the Environment.

Rosaline Corbin, MA (Mane), Commonwealth Liaison Unit of Barbados.

Joan Cuffie, BA (UWI), MA (UWI), Temporary Lecturer, School of Education, UWI, Consulting Psychologist.

Diane Cummins, BSc (UWI), MSc (Wales), Consultant.

Elizabeth Best, BA (UWI), MA (York, UK), PhD (Lond), Graduate Teacher,

Kathleen Drayton, BA (Lond - UCWI), Dip Ed (UCWI), Scottish Teacher's Certificate, Retired Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, UWI, Cave Hill.

Margaret Gill, BSc (UWI), MA (UWI), Tutor, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literatures, UWI, Cave Hill.

Maryam Hinds, Acting Director, Barbados Drug Service.

Rev. Eliseus Joseph, BSc, MA (UWI), Part-time Lecturer, Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work, UWI, Cave Hill.

Linden Lewis, BA (UWI), MA (American University), PhD (AU), Associate Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University.

Nan Peacocke, BA (Regina), Editor.

Joan Phillips, BSc (UWI), MPhil (UWI).

Sheila Stuart, BA (Reading), MSc (Warwick), Director, Social Affairs Officer, ECLAC Research Associate.

Jo-Ann Granger, BA (St Augustine), Dip Library Science (Mona), MLS (Alabama).Associate Faculty.

Richard Goodridge Associate Faculty

Cynthia Barrow-Giles Associate Faculty

Donna St.Hill Research Associate.

Kamala Kempadoo Research Associate.

Sharon Alexander-Gooding Associate Faculty

ASSOCIATE FACULTY

Christine Barrow, BA, DPhil, PGCE (Sus), Professor, Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work, UWI, Cave Hill, Deputy Principal.

Hilary Mc D. Beckles, BA, PhD (Hull), Professor of Social and Economic History, Department of History, UWI, Cave Hill.

Jane Bryce, BA (Oxf), PGCE (Lond), MA (Essex), PhD (Ile-Ife). Senior Lecturer, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literatures, UWI, Cave Hill.

Clarke, Richard BA First Class Hons. (UWI), MA (York U, Ca), PhD (UWI). Lecturer in Cultural and Critical Theory, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, UWI, Cave Hill.

Alan Cobley, BA (Man), MA (York), PhD (Lond), Dean, Faculty of Humanities; Professor, Department of History, UWI, Cave Hill.

Aviston Downes, BA (UWI), DPhil (York), Temporary Lecturer, Department of History, UWI, Cave Hill.Research interests includes: Gender in Caribbean History, especially the historical evolution of Caribbean masculinities; the history of Caribbean sport and the history of fraternal institutions in the region.

Evelyn O'Callaghan, BA (Nat Univ of Ireland), M Litt (Ox), Senior Lecturer, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, UWI, Cave Hill.

Judith Soares, BA (UWI), MSc (UWI), PhD (Queens University), Tutor/Coordinator, Women and Development Unit, School of Continuing Studies, UWI, Cave Hill.

OUTREACH

The Centre hosts and facilitates public lectures, seminars, panel discussions (including television and radio) workshops, and focus groups comprising the academic and NGO community. Expertise for these activities is available through a coordinated pool of associate faculty, research associates affiliated with the Centre, and members of the WDS Group.

CGDS Cave Hill has a responsibility to assist in the planning and design of programmes on gender and development issues in the OECS community and to disseminate information whenever possible.

Caribbean Institute in Gender and Development: Intensive Training Programme

The Certificate Course in  Gender and Development Studies is the major outreach activity of CGDS. It is offered by the Centre at Cave Hill from July to September every two years.

The certificate course is designed to introduce participants to the theoretical and methodological approaches to the issues of gender relations and its impact on women and men, and how these affect the process of social change. It seeks to empower participants to improve their social situation and to enhance their capacity to contribute to the process of change.

Participants come from throughout the Commonwealth, Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean. The course format consists of five weeks of residential work at the Cave Hill Campus; six weeks of field work in participants' home countries; and a final week in Barbados to present findings and to be evaluated. Course units include:

• The history of women organizing and women's organisations

• Feminist theorizing and Caribbean Development

• Research methodologies

• Gender and Caribbean political economy

• Women, health and development: sexuality, aging, reproductive health, HIV-AIDS

• Gender, media and popular culture

Past research projects include:

• A Gender Analysis of Globalization

• The Impact of Christian Teachings on Women's Sexuality

• The Legal System's Response to Domestic Violence in St. Lucia

Caribbean Institute Brochure

Caribbean Institute Application Form

RESOURCE PERSONS

Professor Eudine Barriteau. Deputy Principal, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Ms Jeanette Bell, Barbados

Ms Rosaline Corbin, Civil Society Coordinator, Attorney General’s Office/past participant, Barbados

Ms Diane Cummins, Social Development Consultant, Barbados

Dr Joan Rawlins, Lecturer, UWI, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

Ms Stacey Cumberbatch, Lecturer, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Professor Patricia Mohammed, UWI, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

Ms Alicia Mondesire, Gender and Management Consultant, Canada

Ms Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Lecturer, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Professor Barbara Bailey, Regional Coordinator, CGDS, Jamaica

Ms Gaietry Pargass, Legal Consultant, Trinidad and Tobago

Ms Keturah Babb, Deputy Coordinator, Caribbean Policy Development Centre, Barbados

Dr Sharon Marshall, Information Officer, Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados

Dr Carol Jacobs, Chairman, National HIV/AIDS Commission, Barbados

Ms Varia Williams, Attorney at Law, Barbados

Rev Eliseus Joseph, Pastor/Consultant, Barbados

Ms Folade Mutota, Social Development Consultant/past participant, Trinidad and Tobago

Ms Verna St. Rose-Greaves, Consultant/past participant, Trinidad and Tobago

Professor Rhoda Reddock, UWI. St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

Ms Gemma Tang-Nain, Trinidad and Tobago

Ms Margaret Gill, Teaching Assistant, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Ms Cathy Shepherd, Information Specialist, Trinidad and Tobago

Public Lectures, Seminars and Workshops

Lecture no. 13

Gender, Generation and Memory: Remembering a Future Caribbean. Dr. Alissa Trotz. November 16, 2007.

Lecture no. 12 Economics, Power and Politics: How to Make Accountability for Human Rights and Gender Equality Part of the Picture. Dr. Yassine Fall." November 17, 2006.   

Lecture no.11 The Promotion and Enforcement of Women's Human Rights Within the Judicial System of the Caribbean.  The Honourable Madame Justice Desiree Bernard, O.R., C.C.H. First Female Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice.  November 18th, 2005.

Lecture no.10 A Woman's Place in the 21st Century Movement: Reflections on the Quest for Sovereignty and Unity. Ms Selma James, Author, Activist and Widow of C.L.R. James, November 12th, 2004.

Lecture no. 9Men and Masculinities in the Contemporary Caribbean. Dr Linden Lewis, Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA, November 14^th, 2003.

Lecture no. 8 Women and Islam in Africa in the Twenty first Century. Dr. Fatou Sow, Senior Lecturer, Cheik Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal, November 15, 2002.

Lecture no. 7 Travelling Mercies. Lorna Goodison, Poet, Author and Artist, University of Toronto and Jamaica. November 16, 2001.

Lecture no. 6 The Debate on Gender and Development: An African Feminist Perspective. Dr Patricia McFadden, Senior Program Officer, Gender Division of the South African Institute for Policy Studies, Zimbabwe, November 17, 2000.

Lecture no. 5 Globalisation, Women’s Poverty and Sustainable Development. Devaki Jain, Founder the International Network, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, DAWN, Bangalore, India. November 12, 1999.

Lecture no. 4 UWI - A Progressive University for Women? Dr Marlene Hamilton, Pro Vice Chancellor for Administration and Special Initiatives, University of the West Indies. December 4, 1998.

Lecture no. 3 Women and Political Leadership in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Honourable Portia Simpson. Minister of Labour, Social Security and Sport, Government of Jamaica. Scheduled for November 14, 1997. Please note this lecture was cancelled one week before the date. The Minister called to say general elections had just been declared and no ministers could travel. It was too late to reschedule. It had already been advertised.

Lecture no. 2 A Vision of Health and Development for the Twenty First Century. Dr. Karen Sealy. Caribbean Regional Coordinator, Pan American Health Organisation. November 15, 1996.

Lecture no. 1 The Experiences of the First Female Prime Minister in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Dame Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980 - 1995. November 3, 1995.