Joycelin Massiah is Professor and former Director,
Institute of Social and Economic Research (Eastern Caribbean),
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, and former
Regional Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women,
Caribbean Office (now UNWomen).
Elsa Leo-Rhynie is Professor Emerita of Gender and
Development Studies and former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal,
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Barbara Bailey is Professor Emerita of Gender and
Education and former University Director, Institute for Gender and
Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
The UWI Gender Journey is a bold volume that carefully documents
the visionary commitment and struggles for recognition and respect
of a relatively small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each
of them powerful academics and leaders, as they collaborated to
institutionalize gender and development studies at the University
of West Indies. We learn about the origins of the Institute for
Gender and Development Studies and how it came to provide global
academic leadership in the field of gender and development
studies.
The story of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies and
all its preceding phases deserves to be told both because of its
significant impact on regional scholarship and also because it
exemplifies commitment to the legitimation of a fundamentally
interdisciplinary academic undertaking with great importance for
Caribbean social well-being. The UWI Gender Journey records a
uniquely regional project and its broader momentum, offering
powerful lessons for advocates for gender studies internationally.
The authors also make clear that gender and development studies is
an essential component of the global struggle against gender
inequalities.
The audience for this work is both regional and global. The
detailed descriptive account of how women and gender studies came
to be in the University of the West Indies provides much of
scholarly interest for academics elsewhere. Historians will find
the volume invaluable for its wealth of details about how various
Caribbean feminist scholars and their supporters responded to
global development initiatives."" - Pauline Barber, Proff. and
chair, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie
University
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