Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: through an African-feminist theoretical lens, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn writing gender into history - Indian men and women in post-indenture Trinidad society, 1917-47, Patricia Mohammed gender politics and imperial politics - rethinking the history of empire, Catherine Hall. Part 2 Sources and methods: text, testimony and gender, Bridget Brereton gender and memory, Mary Chamberlain pictorial sources for 19th-century women's history, Glory Robertson. Part 3 Women and slavery: the female slave in Cuba, Digna Castaneda women, work and resistance in the French Caribbean, Bernard Moitt slave women, higglering and resistance, Sandra Awang street vendors, peddlars, shop owners and domestics, Puerto Rico 1820-70, Felix Matos-Rodriguez. Part 4 Women in the post-slavery period: victims or strategists? ... female lodging house keepers in Jamaica, Paulette Kerr women, the peasantry and land transactions in Jamaica 1865-1900, Veront Satchell gender, migration and settlement - secondary education for girls in Barbados 1907-43, Janice Mayers. Part 5 Women, protest and political movements: females of abandoned character? - protest in Jamaica 1838-65, Swithin Wilmot social and political motherhood of Cuba - Mariana Grajeles y Cuello, Jean Stubbs Jamaica women's assembly, Linnette Vassell. Part 6 Comparative perspectives: women and infanticide in 19th-century France, Jonathan Dalby the status, role and influence of women in the Eastern Delta states of Nigeria 1850-1900, Waibinte Wariboko women and plantations in West Cameroon since 1900, Richard Goodridge.