Theorizing gender systems and the project of modernity in the twentieth-century caribbean

Feminist Review

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 186-210

  Barriteau, Eudine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Economy; Enlightenment; Gender systems; Liberalism; Modernity; Postcolonial; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032361688     PISSN: 01417789     EISSN: 14664380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014177898339523     Document Type: Article

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