Eudine Barriteau
Eudine Barriteau is Professor of Gender and Public Policy,
Head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies,
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She
is the author of The Political Economy of Gender in the
Twentieth Century Caribbean (London: Macmillan; New York:
St. Martins, 2001). Her edited collection, Confronting
Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdiscipinary Perspectives
in the Caribbean won the UWI Press Best Selling Textbook
award in 2004. Other publications include “Confronting
Power and Politics: A Feminist Theorizing of Gender in
Commonwealth Caribbean Societies”, Meridians: Feminism,
Race, Transnationalism, vol. 3(2): 57-92, and “Women
Entrepreneurs and Economic Marginality: Rethinking Caribbean
Women’s
Economic Relations.” In Gendered Realities: Essays
in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by Patricia Mohammed,
212-248. University of the West Indies Press, 2002. She
has published several articles on feminist theorizing
and is currently coordinating three research projects
that collectively examine Caribbean political economy
and social change from the perspective of gender. She
is the inaugural Dame Nita Barrow Women in Development
Fellow, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University
of Toronto (1997).
