Jamaican Women and the World Wars

Addresses Jamaican women's previously unrecognised roles in both World Wars Provides rare accounts of military service through women's personal recollections
Establishes a link between Jamaican women's wartime service and general improvements in their socio-political status

Auteur
Dalea Bean is Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica. Before working with the IGDS, she taught in the Department of History and Archaeology at UWI in the areas of women's history and Caribbean history. Her research interests include gender and conflict situations, and women and gender justice in the contemporary Caribbean. She has written book chapters and journal articles, and presented numerous academic papers internationally on these and other topics.

Contenu
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: War Can No Longer be Confined to the Battlefield: Situating Jamaica in World Wars I and II.- Chapter 3: Doing Their Little Bit: Women's Organisation of Jamaican World War I Efforts.- Chapter 4: Masculine Duties and Feminine Powers: Gender and Recruiting Efforts during World War I.- Chapter 5: Votes for (some) women now!: The Road to Political Franchise in the Aftermath of War.- Chapter 6: The Woman's Place is in the War: Continuity and Change in World War II.- Chapter 7: We Were Soldiers: Jamaican Women Enlist in World War II.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.- Index.