Working miracles : women's lives in the English-speaking Caribbean / Olive Senior

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List of iIIustrations, map & tables, ix.-- Acknowledgements, x.-- Foreword by Dr Joycelin Massiah, xi.-- Introduction, 1.-- The Women in the Caribbean ProJect (WICP), 1.-- Aims of the book, 2.-- Organization of the book, 4.-- Part I. Childhood & Socializarían, 7.-- The household setting, 8.-- Child-caring, 9.-- Child-rearing, 10.-- Grandmother and kin networks, 10.-- Child-shifting, 12.-- The nature of child-shifting, 15.-- The effects of child-shifting, 17.-- Paternal absence, 18.-- 'Inside/outside' children, 20.-- Socialization & gender-role learning, 25.-- The socialization process, 25.-- Factors affecting socialization, 26.-- Culture, 26.-- Socio-economic status, 28.-- Social expectations and values, 30.-- Child-rearing practice, 31.-- Value conflict, 32.-- Gender-role learning, 33.-- Absent male/avenging female?, 36.-- Sorne implications of gender-role learning, 39.-- Gender-role stereotyping and identity formation, 41.-- Education & gender-role stereotyping, 43.-- Historical and cultural processes, 46.-- Historical background, 46.-- The ideology of female education, 47.-- Factors affecting education today, 51.-- Socio-economic factors, 51.-- The nature of the educational experience, 54.-- Cultural factors, 55.-- Attainment and performance, 57.-- Occupational choice, 59.-- Gender-role stereotyping and education, 61.-- Part II. Family & household, 65.-- The concept of motherhood, 66.-- Attitudes to childbearing, 66.-- Learning the facts of life, 69.-- Preparations for motherhood, 71.-- Reactions lo first pregnancy, 76.-- Response to children, 78.-- Kinship support, 79.-- Family & household, 82.-- Family forms, 82.-- Types of union, 84.-- Visiting, 84.-- Common-Iaw, 85.-- Married, 86.-- Single, 86.-- Attitudes lo marriage, 87.-- Legal status of wives, 91.-- Reasons for not marrying, 93.-- Power and status in the household, 96.-- Family vs. household, 96.-- Defining household headship, 97.-- Gender, 97.-- Property ownership, 98.-- Household responsibility, 98.-- Age, 98.-- Characteristics of households, 98.-- Decision-making in the household, 98.-- Special position of female household heads, 100.-- Characteristics of female-headed households, 101.-- Part III. Sources of livelihood, 103.-- Working women, 104.-- The sexual division of labour, 105.-- Historical patterns of women's work, 105.-- Indentured workers, 108.-- Influence cif emigration, 108.-- Definitions of women's work, 110.-- Official difinition of work, 110.-- The WICP difinition of work, 112.-- Women`s difinition cif work, 113.-- Women`s 'independence', 115.-- Role conflicts: home/job and the allocation of time, 116.-- Women in the labour force, 117.-- Domestic labour, 119.-- Export-processing industries, 121.-- Occupational status, 123.-- Characteristics of working women, 126.-- Employment status, 126.-- Education, 126.-- Age, 127.-- Union status, 127.-- Motherhood, 127.-- Reliability, 127.-- Measures of job satisfaction, 128.-- 'Making do', 129.-- Survival strategies, 129.-- 'Making do', 129.-- Self-employment, 132.-- Sources of support, 133.-- Dependence on males, 135.-- Child support, 135.-- Kinship and jriendship networks, 139.-- Family home (pooling resources), 142.-- Adult children, 144.-- Institutional benefits, 145.-- Ownership and management of resources, 145.-- Part IV. Women & others, 149.-- Women in the public & political domain, 150.-- 'Rebel' women, 150.-- Women's public status, 152.-- Women in organizations, 153.-- Church groups, 154.-- Government machinery, 154.-- Umbrella organizations, 155.-- Characteristics of organizations, 156.-- Women in politics, 156.-- Why not more women in politics?, 159.-- Socialization, 159.-- Role conflict, 160.-- Economic factors, 161.-- Lack of male support, 161.-- Lack of female support, 162.-- Women's issues, 163.-- Women & men, 166.-- General views of male/female behaviour, 166.-- Female images in calypso, 167.-- Male perceptions of women: mother vs. 'other', 168.-- Attitudes and expectations, 170.-- Behaviour and experience, 171.-- Fidelity, 171.-- Family responsibilities, 173.-- Sharing relationships, 175.-- Changing attitudes of women vs. men, 178.-- Analysing the contradictions, 179.-- Conclusion, 185.-- Bibliography, 195.-- WICP publications, 195.-- Primary Sources, 195.-- Published articles and unpublished conference papers, 195.-- Other references, 196.-- Index, 201.

Libro físico pertenece a la biblioteca del Dr. Roberto Cassá.