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Book Chapters - Subject to Peer Review

  • "Popular Movement to Mass Organization: The Case of the National Women's Organization of Grenada (NWO) 1979-1983" in (Ed.) D. Slater New Social Movements and State in Latin America, CEDLA Amsterdam, 1985, 261-294.
  • "New Trends in the Internationalization of Production: Implications for Female Workers" with Ofelia Gomez. International Labour (eds.) Rosalind Boyd, Robin Cohen and Peter Gutkind, Gower Press, London, 1987.
  • "Women in Revolt: Women and the Radical Workers Movement 1934-1937". In The Trinidad Labour Riots 1937: Perspectives 50 Years Later, ed. Roy Thomas, UWI, Extra-Mural Department, St. Augustine, 1987, 233-263.
  • "Feminism and Feminist Thought: A Historical Overview". In Gender in Caribbean Development, eds. P. Mohammed and C. Shepherd, Women and Development Studies Project, UWI, St. Augustine, 1988 (23 pages) (now in 3rd Edition).
  • "The Itinerary of Discrimination" in Caribbean Women in Agriculture with Jasmine Huggins, FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, (Chile), 1988.
  • "Commentary - The Quality of Life" in Selwyn Ryan (ed.) The Independence Experience 1962-1987, ISER, St. Augustine, 1988.
  • "Women and the Sexual Division of Labour, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago" in Women and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean, Ed. Keith Hart, ISER, (CGSSS), Mona, 1989. 2nd edition 1996 (22 pages).
  • "Women and the Slave Plantation Economy in the Caribbean (with specific reference to Trinidad and Tobago)" in Women in History: Changing Perceptions, ed. Jay Kleinberg. UNESCO/Berg Publishers, Paris/London, 1989.
  • "Feminism, Nationalism and the Early Women’s Movement in the English-Speaking Caribbean (with special reference to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago)" in Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference, ed. Selwyn Cudjoe, Calaloux Publications, Wellesley, 1990.
  • "Social Mobility in Trinidad and Tobago, 1960-1980", in Social and Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago, ed. Selwyn Ryan, ISER, St. Augustine, 1991.
  • "New Developments in Research on Women: The Commonwealth Caribbean Experience", in Women’s Studies International: Nairobi and Beyond, ed. Aruna Rao, The Feminist Press, New York, 1991.
  • Primacy of Gender in Race and Class" in J. Edward Greene (ed.) Race, Class and Gender in the Future of the Caribbean, ISER, Mona, 1993.
  • Transformation in the Needle Trades: Women in Garment and Textile Production in Early Twentieth Century Trinidad’ in Janet Momsen (ed.) Women and Change in the Caribbean, Ian Randle/James Currey/Indiana University Press, London, 1993.
  • The Early Women’s Movement in Trinidad and Tobago: 1900-1937" in S. Wieringa (ed) Subversive Women: Historical Experiences of Gender and Resistance, Zed Books and Kali Books, London/New Delhi, 1995.
  • "The Trinidad and Tobago Labour Movement: A Vision for the Future" in N.M. Cowell and Ian Boxill (eds) Human Resource Management: A Caribbean Perspective, Canoe Press, Kingston, 1995.
  • "Agriculture and Women’s Place: The Impact of Changing National Policies on Women’s Agricultural Work in Trinidad and Tobago" in Elsa Leo-Rhynie, Barbara Bailey, Christine Barrow (eds.) Gender: A Caribbean Multidisciplinary Perspective, James Currey/Ian Randle Publishers, Oxford/Kingston, 1997 86-102 (with Jasmine Huggins).
  • "Contestations over National Culture in Trinidad and Tobago: Considerations of Ethnicity, Class and Gender" in Christine Barrow (ed.) Caribbean Portraits: Essays on Gender Ideologies and Identities, Ian Randle Publications in Association with the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Kingston, 1998.
  • "Challenging Sociology: Feminist Critical Reconceptualizations and Caribbean Contributions": in Linda Christiansen-Ruffman (ed.) The Global Feminist Enlightenment: Women and Social Knowledge, Pre-Congress Volume, International Sociological Association, Montreal, 1998.
  • "Feminist Theory and Critical Reconceptualization in Sociology: The Challenge of the 1900s" The International Handbook of Sociology, Stella Quah and Arnaud Sales (eds), published in association with the International Sociological Association, Sage Publications, 2000.
  • "Conceptualizing Difference in Caribbean Feminist Theory" in New Caribbean Thought: A Reader, Brian Meeks and Folke Lindhahl (eds.)- The University of the West Indies Press, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad, 2001.
  • "Contestations over Culture, Class, Gender and Identity in Trinidad and Tobago, The Little Tradition" in Questioning Creole: Creolization Discourses in Caribbean Culture (In honour of Kamau Brathwaite), Ian Randle Publishers and James Currey Publishers: Kingston and Oxford, 2002.
  • "Masculinity, Ethnicity and Identity in the Contemporary Socio-economic Context of Trinidad and Tobago" in Caribbean Masculinities: Working Papers, Rafael L. Ramirez, Ineke Cunningham and Victor I Garcia-Toro, HIV/AIDS Research and Education Center, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
  • "Women and the Process of Democratization in the Anglophone Caribbean" in Jaime Behar, Ulf Johnson and Mats Lundahl (eds.) Currents of Change: Globalization, Democratization and Institutional Reform in Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University, 2002.
  • "The Changing Status of Women in the Contemporary Caribbean" (with Alice Colon) Chapter 16 of Volume V of the UNESCO General History of the Caribbean, edited by Bridget Brereton, Tere Martinez-Vergne, Blanca Silverstrini and René Romer- UNESCO Publishing and Macmillan Caribbean, Paris, 2004.
  • "Caribbean Masculinities and Femininities: The Impact of Globalisation on Cultural Representations" in Barbara Bailey and Elsa Leo Rhynie (eds) Gender in the 21st Century, Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, 2004.
  • "Women Workers Struggles in the British Colonial Caribbean in the 1930's in Constance Sutton (ed) Revisiting Caribbean Labour, Ian Randle Publishers, and RISM, Kingston and New York, 2005.
  • "Women in Charge: Trinidad and Tobago" in Sharing Innovative Experiences, Vol. II- Examples of Successful Experiences in Providing Safe Drinking Water, UNDP, Third World Academy of Sciences.
  • "Engendering Environmental Studies and Policies: A Case Study of the Nariva Swamp of Trinidad and Tobago" in Thanh-Dam Truong, Saskia Wieringa and Amrita Chhachhi (eds.) Engendering Human Security: Feminist Perspectives, Zed Books, London, 2006.
  • "Gender, Nation and the Dilemmas of Citizenship: The Case of the Marriage Acts of Trinidad and Tobago", in Carolyn Eliott (ed.) The Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalisation and Politicised Religion, Routledge, New York, 2008.
  • "Global Feminist Networks on Domestic Violence" in Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe (eds.) Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Era, Oñati International Series on Law and Society, Hart Publishing, pp. 179-200, 2008.
  • "Gender and Sexuality: Behaviour, Attitudes and Taboos among University of the West Indies Students on the St. Augustine campus" in Dorothy Roberts, Rhoda Reddock, Dianne Douglas and Sandra Reid (eds.) Sex, Power and Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond, Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston and Miami, 2009.
  • "Caribbean Feminist Theorizing and Research: Trends and Challenges," in Christine Bose and Minjeong Kim (eds.) Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives, Routledge, 2009.