{"id":22852,"date":"2012-05-01T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22852"},"modified":"2013-07-16T18:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T18:18:42","slug":"a-historical-study-of-women-in-jamaica-1655%e2%80%931844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22852","title":{"rendered":"A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655\u20131844"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwipress.com\/content\/historical-study-women-jamaica-1655%E2%80%931844\" target=\"_blank\">A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655\u20131844<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwipress.com\" target=\"_blank\">University of The West Indies Press<\/a><br \/>\n2006<br \/>\n400 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-976-640-178-8<\/p>\n<p>Author:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucille_M._Mair\" target=\"_blank\">Lucille Mathurin Mair<\/a> (1925-2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/principal\/biography.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Hilary McD. Beckles<\/a><\/strong>, Principal<br \/>\n<em>University of The West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mord.mona.uwi.edu\/staff\/view.asp?pid=4930\" target=\"_blank\">Verene A. Shepherd<\/a><\/strong>, University Director<br \/>\nCentre for Gender &amp; Dev Std-RC: Centre Research\/Teaching<br \/>\n<em>University of The West Indies, Mona<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwipress.com\/content\/historical-study-women-jamaica-1655%E2%80%931844\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uwipress.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/bookDescription\/Historical-Study-of-Women.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>List of Tables<\/li>\n<li>Editors&#8217; Introduction: Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s Preface<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Part 1: The Female Arrivants, 1655-1770<\/em><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chapter 1:<\/strong> The Arrivals ofWhite Women<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chapter 2:<\/strong> The Arrivals of Black Women<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chapter 3:<\/strong> The Growth of the Mulatto Group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Part 2: Creole Slave Society, 1770-1834<\/em><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chapter 4:<\/strong> The White Woman in Jamaican Slave Society<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chapter 5:<\/strong> The White Woman: Legal Status, Family, Philanthropy and Gender Constraints<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chapter 6:<\/strong> The Black Woman: Demographic Profile, Occupation and Violent Abuse<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chapter 7:<\/strong> The Black Woman: Agency, Identity and Voice<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chapter 8:<\/strong> The Mulatto Woman in Jamaican Slave Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Part 3: Postscript, 1834-1844<\/em><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chapter 9:<\/strong> The Beginnings of a Free Society, 1834-1844<\/li>\n<li><strong>Afterword:<\/strong> Recollections into a Journey of a Rebel Past<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appendix:<\/strong> Population: St James Parish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Notes<\/li>\n<li>Author&#8217;s Bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Editors&#8217; Selected Bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Index<\/li>\n<li>About the Author<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655\u20131844 University of The West Indies Press 2006 400 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-976-640-178-8 Author: Lucille Mathurin Mair (1925-2009) Edited by: Hilary McD. Beckles, Principal University of The West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Verene A. Shepherd, University Director Centre for Gender &amp; Dev Std-RC: Centre Research\/Teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,21,459,8,6940,25],"tags":[10618,1875,80,10620,10625,10621,10619,10616,10617],"class_list":["post-22852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-women","tag-hilary-beckles","tag-hilary-mcd-beckles","tag-jamaica","tag-lucille-m-mair","tag-lucille-mair","tag-lucille-mathurin-mair","tag-university-of-the-west-indies-press","tag-verene-a-shepherd","tag-verene-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}