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Issues of Difference in Contemporary Caribbean Feminism
This paper interrogates Caribbean feminist theory and activism in relation to the Euro-American experience and to challenges emerging from the Third World discourse. The author argues from the standpoint position that second wave Caribbean feminism has been largely Afro-centric and simultaneously interlocked with processes of independence and national identity struggles. She suggests that there is a need for the movement to reflect the experiences of women of other ethnic groups in the region. In this regard, in Trinidad and Tobago the Indo-Caribbean voice has been emerging and broadening the feminist base. In more recent years also the divisions between feminist and non-feminist groups are subsiding, strengthening the ultimate capacity of this movement for change in the region.
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Issues of Difference in Contemporary Caribbean Feminism
This paper interrogates Caribbean feminist theory and activism in relation to the Euro-American experience and to challenges emerging from the Third World discourse. The author argues from the standpoint position that second wave Caribbean feminism has been largely Afro-centric and simultaneously interlocked with processes of independence and national identity struggles. She suggests that there is a need for the movement to reflect the experiences of women of other ethnic groups in the region. In this regard, in Trinidad and Tobago the Indo-Caribbean voice has been emerging and broadening the feminist base. In more recent years also the divisions between feminist and non-feminist groups are subsiding, strengthening the ultimate capacity of this movement for change in the region.
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Caribbean Feminism in International Perspective
This paper discusses the question of whether it is possible to talk of an international feminism by examining the issues of 'difference' which have emerged in the movement related to analyses of women's subordination and experiences of subordination based on factors of race, class and nation in particular. This theoretical framework has been used as the backdrop for examining the politics of race and class within the contemporary Caribbean feminist movement.
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Women on the frontline
SATTA Gbondo was nine and her sister, Patricia, 12 when rebel fighters in Sierra Leone abducted them in April 1998. Their father Stephen has not seen them since. What happened to Stephen's daughters has happened to some 10,000 girls in Sierra Leone, abducted by the Rebel United Front and used as active fighters, sex slaves, \"mules\" to carry supplies, and maids to prepare food in the camps. In Sierra Leone, for example, the devastating human cost of years of civil war and political violence has left no one in the country untouched. The issues of child soldiers, refugees and displaced persons, loss of livelihood, rape, torture and mutilation, and the spread of HIV/AIDS affect women, men, boys and girls in different ways. The same is true of the destruction of basic infrastructure such as housing, water and sanitation, schools, agriculture and trade. Women, however, are rarely part of high-level peace negotiations. Lesley Abdela of Project Parity (an organisation dedicated to increasing women's political representation) said, following a visit to Freetown on behalf of the British Council last November, \"Women were the main driving force in organising the 1996 elections, but when the elections took place they were sidelined. Again in 1999, 3,000 women marched on RUF leader Foday Sankoh to tell him to wise up and stop the fighting. Subsequently women lobbied to be included in the peace negotiations but were excluded.\" In the Solomon Islands, more than a hundred women from the islands of Guadalcanal and Malaita - whose menfolk were fighting each other - came together in the capital Honiara, in May last year, to talk about how the conflict had affected them and to call for peace. So determined were the women of Malaita that they braved rough seas in a boat to get to the talks. Women played a key role in bringing men from opposing sides to the peace table in Bougainville, where attempts at secession from Papua New Guinea had brought about more than a decade of violent conflict. In Fiji Islands' recent political upheaval, women initiated community action and provided support to those most seriously affected by the crisis.
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