1st Edition

Gender, Ethnicity and Place Women and Identity in Guyana

By Linda Peake, D. Alissa Trotz Copyright 1999
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from a feminist perspective.

    1. Introduction 2. Methodology and Reflexivity 3. The Emergence of Guyanese Women's Identities 4. The Contemporary Situation of Guyanese Women 5. Gender, Ethnicity and the Family in Albouystown 6. Globalisation and Indo-Guyanese Women in Meten Meer Zorg East 7. Gender and Sexuality among Afro-Guyanese in Linden 8. Women across place 9. Red Thread's Feminism: A Politics of the Possible? 10. Conclusion

    Biography

    Linda Peake, D. Alissa Trotz