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Senior, Olive Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-speaking Caribbean 1991 Book Black Women, Mothering, Non-Western Societies Carribean, Gender, Gendered Labour, Historiography, Historical Context, History, Literature, Popular Culture, Race
Citation Senior, Olive 1991 Book Carribean Gender Gendered Labour Historiography Historical Context History Literature Popular Culture Race Black Women Mothering Non-Western Societies

Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-speaking Caribbean

by Senior, Olive (1991)

Abstract

This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examination of women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of the women themselves. Caribbean: ISER, University of the West Indies

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Carribean, Gender, Gendered Labour, Historiography, Historical Context, History, Literature, Popular Culture, Race

Themes

Black Women, Mothering, Non-Western Societies

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