The Making of Feminisms in the Caribbean

The “Making of Feminisms in the Caribbean” project aims to present a concrete response to the evident lacunae in the literature and history of Women’s Activism and Politics. This is an initiative of the Mona Unit of the CGDS. The goals of this research project are:

• To maintain the link between activism and academia, as practiced by the women who were involved in the earlier first and particularly, the second wave of Feminism;

• To transmit to the younger generation (the third wave) the fervour of activism, the desire to change the forms of organization that were tried and to inspire them to carry on the work which has still to be done;

• To construct Feminism as an ongoing project and Gender as a conceptual tool, which leaves the new generation open to define their issues for themselves;

• To collect relevant empirical and analytic material that supported earlier periods of feminist and women’s movement activism and provide the basis for ongoing critical analysis of the past.

• To contribute towards the creation of an archive of the Caribbean Women’s Movement.