Tue September 09

Introductions, Overview, Expectations, Syllabus, Requirements

Demographics: Social, Cultural, Geo-political

Colonialism, Slavery and Resistance

Tue September 16

History of Cuba: Colonialism, Slavery, Three Revolutions, Relations with the U.S., and Two Development Strategies (Ann)

Readings:

[Handout]-Selections from Maria De Los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Reyita: Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the 20th Century, Chapter 6.

[Required Text]-Smith and Padula, Ch. 1 & 2.

[Reader]-Margaret Leahy, Development Strategies and the Status of Women: A Comparative Study of United States, Mexico, Soviet Union, Cuba, Ch. 6.

Optional:

[Recommended Text]-Maria Lopez Vigil, Ch. 1 & 2, skim.

[Reader]-Margaret Leahy, Ch. 5.

Perez, Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution, selections: pp. 315-331; 369-374; 381-394.

Tue September 23

The Complexities And Multi-Disciplinary Gender Issues that Challenge Feminism in the Anglophone Caribbean (Alex)

Readings:

[Handout]-Peggy Antrobus, The Rise and Fall of Feminist Politics in the Caribbean Women's Movement.

[Recommended Text]-Eudine Barriteau:

   › Mapping The Terrain, pp. 1-19.

   › Theorizing the State and Gender Systems in the Twentieth Century Caribbean, pp. 20-44.

[Required Text]-Mohammed and Shepherd: Lucille Mathurin Mair, Women's Studies in an International Context, pp. 3-10.

Optional:

[Recommended Text]-Eudine Barriteau, op.cit., Constructing Gender Containing Women: Promoting Gender Equity in Caribbean States, pp. 74-94.

Tue September 30

Socialism and the Woman Question in Cuba, Socialism vs. Feminism, Global and Anti-Capitalist Feminism (Ann)

Readings:

A. Women and Revolution in Cuba:

  [Reader]-Sheryl Lutjens, Remaking the Public Sphere: Women and Revolution in Cuba.

  [Handout]-Isabel Larguia and John Dumoulin, Towards a Science of Women's Liberation: An Analysis from Cuba.

  [Required Text]-Smith and Padula, Chs. 3 & 4.

B. Socialism vs. Feminism:

  [Reader]-Fidel Castro, The Revolution within the Revolution.

  [Reader]-Maxine Molyneux, State, Gender, and Institutional Change: The Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas.

  Optional:

  [Recommended Text]-Eudine Barriteau, op.cit., Constructing Gender Containing Women: Promoting Gender Equity in Caribbean States, pp. 74-94.

  [Recommended Text]-Maria Lopez Vigil, Ch. 5.

  Margaret Randall, Cuban Women, Twenty Years Later, Ch. 1.

  Carolina Aguilar and Alicia Chenard, Is There a Place for Feminism in the Revolution? Kuppers, ed.

  Communist Party of Cuba, Thesis: On the Full Exercise of Women's Equality, Stone, ed. Women and the Cuban Revolution.

  Maloof, ed. Voices of Resistance, Ch. 1-8.

  Vilma Espin, The Early Years, from Stone, ed.

Tue October 07

Gender and Development: Models and Theories in the Anglophone Caribbean (Alex)

Readings:

[Required Text]-Mohammed and Shepherd:

   › Norman .P. Girvan, Notes on the Meaning and Significance of Development, pp. 13-22.

   › A. Lynn Bolles, Theories of Women in Development in the Caribbean: The Ongoing Debate, pp. 23-34.

   › Peggy Antrobus, Women in Development Programmes: The Caribbean Experience, (1975-1985), pp. 35-50.

   › Patricia Ellis, Mechanisms and Strategies for the Advancement and Empowerment of Women, pp. 92-116.

[Required Text]-Mohammed and Shepherd: Lucille Mathurin Mair, Women's Studies in an International Context, pp. 3-10.

***1st Short Paper Due***

Tue October 14

Race, Gender and Culture: Racism, Sexism and the State: Counter Cultural Movements

Readings:

The Anglophone Caribbean:

  [Required Text]-Mohammed and Shepherd:

     › Briget Brereton, General Problems and Issues in Studying the History of Women, pp. 119-135.

     › Rosina Wiltshire-Brodber, Gender, Race and Class in the Caribbean, pp. 136-148.

     › Kathleen Drayton, Transmissions Through Language Policy in the Education System, pp. 290-299.

  Optional:

  [Required Text]-Mohammed & Shepherd: Gordon Rohlehr, Images of Men and Women in the 1930s Calypsoes; The Sociology of Food Acquisition in a Context of Survivalism, pp. 223-289.

Cuba:

  [Reader]-Nancy Morejón, Grounding the Race Dialogue: Diaspora and Nation, from Pedro Pérez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs, eds.

  [Reader]-Carlos Moore, Race Relations in Socialist Cuba.

  [Reader]-Margot Olavarria, Rap and Revolution: Hip Hop Comes to Cuba.

  Optional:

  Guillermina Ramos Cruz, Grupo Antillano and the Marginalization of Black Artists, from Pedro Pérez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs, eds.

  Terry Cannon and Johnnetta Cole, Free and Equal: The End of Racial Discrimination in Cuba, skim.

  Aline Helg, Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912, chs. 5-8, skim.

  Perez Sarduy and Stubbs, eds., skim.

Tue October 21

Health, Motherhood and Reproductive Rights

Readings:

The Anglophone Caribbean:

  [Required Text]-Mohammed and Shepherd:

     › Christine Barrow, Men, Women and Family in the Caribbean: A Review, pp. 149-163.

     › Patricia Mohammed, The Caribbean Family Revisited, pp. 164-175.

  [Handout]-Elsa Leo- Rhynie, Barbara Bailey, Christine Barrow, Gender: A Caribbean Multi-Disciplinary Perspective, 1997, Ian Randle Publishers:

     › Joycelin Massiah, Researching Women's Health, pp. 252-258.

     › Caroline Allen, Researching Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Caribbean, pp. 259-276.

Cuba:

  [Reader]-Margaret Randall, Women as Mother: the Right to Free and Complete Childbearing Attention, Ch. 3 of Women in Cuba, Twenty Years Later.

  [Required Text]-Smith and Padula, chs. 5 & 6.

  Optional:

  Germaine Greer, Politics-Cuba, in Women: A World Report.

***2nd Short Paper Due***

Tue October 28

Education and Employment: The Triple Shift Problem

Readings:

The Anglophone Caribbean:

  [Required Text]-Mohammed and Shepherd:

     › Ralph Henry, Jobs, Gender and Development Strategy in the Commonwealth Caribbean, pp. 176-196.

     › Joycelin Massiah, Researching Women's Work: 1985 and Beyond, pp. 197-220.

     › Marjorie Thorpe, Feminism and the Female Authored West Indian Novel: Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones, pp. 303-313.

     › Elaine Savory FIFO, Where Do we Go From Here? Literature in English and the Women's Studies Program at UWI, pp. 314-323.

Cuba:

  [Reader]-Isabel Larguia and John Dumoulin, Women's Equality and the Cuban Revolution, from Nash and Safa, eds.

  [Required Text]-Smith and Padula, ch. 7.

  Optional:

  Jane Flax, The Cuban Family Code, in Z. Eisenstein Socialist Feminism and the Case for Women's Liberation.

  Carol Bengelsdorf, Emerging from Underdevelopment: Women and Work in Cuba, from Eistenstein ed.

  Marta Nunez Sarmiento, Cuban Strategies for Women's Employment in the 1990s: A Case Study of Professional Women.

  Helen Safa 1989. Women, Industrialization and State Policy in Cuba.

Tue November 04

Sexuality, Prostitution and Sex Work in the Caribbean

Readings:

The Anglophone Caribbean:

  [Recommended Text]-Kamala Kempadoo:

     › Julia O'Connell Davidson and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Fantasy Islands: Exploring the Demand for Sex Tourism, pp. 37-54.

     › Beverly Mullings, Globalization, Tourism, and the International Sex Trade, pp. 55-80.

     › Joan L. Phillips, Tourist-Oriented Prostitution in Barbados: The Case of the Beach Boy and the White Female Tourist, pp. 183-200.

  Optional:

  [Recommended Text]-Kamala Kempadoo, "Continuities and Change: Five Centuries of Prostitution in the Caribbean", pp. 5-33.

Cuba:

  [Reader]-Georgina Herrera, Poetry, Prostitution and Gender Esteem, from Pedro Pérez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs, ed.

  [Reader]-Amalia Lucia Cabezas, Discourses of Prostitution: The Case of Cuba, from Kempadoo and Doczema, eds.

  [Reader]-Marilyn Bobes, Somebody Has to Cry, Mirta Yanez, ed. Cubanas.

  Optional:

  Coco Kusco, Hustling for Dollars: Jineterismo in Cuba, from Kempadoo and Doczema, eds.

  Young Gays Under the Cuban Revolution, skim.

***3rd Short Paper Due***

Tue November 11

Holiday - Veterans Day

Tue November 18

Caribbean Feminist Alternative Development Strategies: Case Studies from the Anglophone Caribbean (Alex)

Film/Excerpts or Guest Speaker

Readings:

[Required Text]-Mohammed & Shepherd:

   › Joan French, Women and Health: A Sistren Participatory Workshop, pp. 327-331.

   › Patricia Mohammed, A Sistren Participatory Workshop - An Analysis of the Method, pp. 332-336.

[Recommended Text]-Patricia Ellis:

   › Strategies to Increase Gender Sensitivity, pp. 161-168.

   › Women, Gender, Poverty and Violence, pp. 117-145.

   › Men's Issues and the Issues of Men, pp. 146-156.

Optional:

[Recommended Text]-Eudine Barriteau, "Rethinking Gender and Development for the Twenty First Century", pp. 151-178.

Tue November 25

Caribbean Feminist Alternative Development Strategies: Cuba (Ann)

Guest Speaker on Cuban Health System

Readings:

[Reader]-Sonia Alvarez "Women's Movements and the State".

[Reader]-Carmen Diana Deere "Rural Women and Agrarian Reform in Peru, Chile, and Cuba," in Nash and Safa, eds.

[Handout]-Ann Ferguson "Practical vs. Strategic Interests: The Case of Nicaragua and Cuba".

[Reader]-Gita Sen and Caren Grown, Development, Crises and Alternative Visions, Ch. 3.

November 26-30

Thanksgiving Recess

Tue December 02

Group Reports

***Term Paper Due***

Tue December 09

Group Reports