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Engendering History broadens the base of empirical knowledge on Caribbean women's history and re-evaluates the body of work that exists. The book is pan-Caribbean in its approach, though most articles are on the English-speaking Caribbean, highlighting the research pattern in Caribbean women's history

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ACRONYMS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Women, Power and Decision-Making in CARICOM Countries: Moving Forward From a Post-Beijing Assessment -- Violence Against Women: A Human Rights Issue - Post Beijing Five Year Review -- Smoke and Mirrors: The Illusion of CARICOM Women's Growing Economic Empowerment, Post-Beijing -- The Search for Gender Equity and Empowerment of Caribbean Women: The Role of Education -- Gender Equality and Women's Health in the Caribbean -- Review of Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women and for Achieving Gender Equality -- Conclusion - Beyond a Backlash: The Frontal Assault on Containing Caribbean Women in the Decade of the 1990s -- BIOGRAPHY BRIEFS -- INDEX.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 The Roots and Impact of Poverty -- AN ETHICAL MAPPING OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE -- FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY ACROSS PAN-AFRICAN SOCIETIES: THE CHURCH'S RESPONSE-ALLEVIATIVE OR EMANCIPATORY? -- Part 2 Challenges of the Global and Informal Economies -- THE INFORMAL ECONOMY AND THE RELIGION OF GLOBAL CAPITAL -- A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON POVERTY IN PAN-AFRICAN CONTEXTS -- Part 3 Religious Strategies for Liberating the Poor -- AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND THE CONCEPT OF POVERTY -- RELIGION AND POVERTY: RITUAL AND EMPOWERMENT IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA -- THE BIBLE AND POVERTY IN AFRICAN PENTECOSTAL CHRISTIANITY: THE BOSADI (WOMANHOOD) APPROACH -- THE STRUGGLE FOR FULL HUMANITY IN POVERTY-STRICKEN KENYA -- Part 4 The Ambiguous Relation of Religion and Poverty -- POVERTY AMONG AFRICAN PEOPLE AND THE AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT -- RELIGION AND MATERIALITY: THE CASE OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION -- WARM BODIES, COLD CURRENCY: A STUDY OF RELIGION'S RESPONSE TO POVERTY -- Part 5 Practical Theories for Combating Poverty -- NYERERE ON UJAMAA AND CHRISTIANITY AS TRANSFORMING FORCES IN SOCIETY -- CARIBBEAN ISSUES: THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES' RESPONSE -- AFRICA'S POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND A JUST SOCIETY -- SELF-INITIATION: A NECESSARY PRINCIPLE IN THE AFRICAN STRUGGLE TO ABOLISH POVERTY -- Contributors -- Index