Gender Negotiations Among Indians in Trinidad 1917 - 1947
Tuesday 29 October 2002
CAFRA member and social historian, Patricia Mohammed , has completed work on her new book, Gender Negotiations Among Indians in Trinidad 1917-1947. The book illustrates how Indian men and women desired to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought with them between 1845 and 1917 where and when these were important to consolidate ethnic identity and the continuity of a culturally distinct Indian community in Trinidad. At the same time, the circumstances of migration allowed challenges to Hinduism’s caste system and provided opportunities for both men and women to defy and reinforce aspects of Indian patriarchy which followed their ancestors across the seas.
Mohammed is currently Head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She has published extensively on gender and feminist studies and is co-editor of Gender in Caribbean Development (1988) and Caribbean Women at the Crossroads (1999).
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