Slaughter, Jane

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Colonial Latin American Historical Review
Volume 5
Issue 2 Volume 5, Issue 2 (Spring 1996) Article 5
4-1-1996
Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton, and Barbara
Bailey, Editors, Engendering History: Caribbean
Women in Historical Perspective
Jane Slaughter
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Slaughter, Jane. "Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton, and Barbara Bailey, Editors, Engendering History: Caribbean Women in
Historical Perspective." Colonial Latin American Historical Review 5, 2 (1996): 236. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/clahr/vol5/
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236 COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW SPRING 1996 
Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective. Edited by 
Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton, and Barbara Bailey. (New York: St. 
Martin's Press, 1995. xxii + 406 pp. Notes. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.) 
The essays collected in Engendering History: Caribbean Women in 
Historical Perspective provide new empirical data on Caribbean women of 
diverse ethnicities, classes and regions, reinterpret and expand source 
materials, and both test and challenge theoretical models and interpretive 
paradigms in the fields of gender and women's history. As this volume 
demonstrates, the historical experiences of Caribbean women are ideally suited 
to examining the intersections of race and gender, the complexities of 
colonialism, and the issues of power, agency, and resistance under slavery and 
in post-emancipation eras. 

238 COLONIAL LA TIN AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW SPRING 1996 
gender and women's history on the historiography of Caribbean slavery. In a 
useful discussion of the conflicts between approaches to women's history and 
approaches to gender history, Beckles argues that looking at the many dimen­
sions of slave women's lives creates meaning and truth that integrate "the 
analysis of real experience and the theorising of constructed representation" (p. 
137). Both empirically and theoretically, Engendering History successfully 
critiques existing knowledge and outlines new paths to historical "truth." 
Jane Slaughter 
Department of History 
University of New Mexico 
uyas tierras e encontraban pr6ximas a los Fuertes. 
Tal vez sean mas destacables las caracteristicas que el autor presenta 
en el origen de la propiedad rural en algunas regiones del interior, donde el 
control del agua y el regimen del derecho de abolengo a traves de las practicas 
del tanteo y retracto garantizaron la poses ion de la gran propiedad territorial. 
Respecto a la parte introductoria del trabajo en la que se expone la 
transicion entre la encomienda y la hacienda para el caso concreto de Jujuy, 
hecho en falta los trabajos que para Cordoba y desde el afio 1990 ha realizado 
el que redacta estas lineas y que vienen a corroborar lo que tanto este autor 


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