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Papers presented at Conferences and Seminars

Technical reports

  • "Consciousness and Organization among Petty Commodity Producers and Traders in Trinidad and Tobago." Presented to Workshop on Trade Unions and the Labouring Poor in the Poor Third World organised by the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and The Public Enterprise Centre for Continuing Education, New Delhi, India (ISS/PECCE) March-April 1981.
  • "Women Still on the Receiving End" a Review Article of Ken Pyrce’s Endless Pressure presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies, June 1982, Hoddesdon, England.
  • "Women’s Movements and Organisations in the Process of Revolutionary Transformation: The Case of Grenada". Presented to ISS/FLACSO Seminar on The Objectives and Margins of State Intervention, Quito, Ecuador, 5-12 September 1982. (50 pages).
  • "Disseminating Knowledge" Short paper presented to ISS/UNESCO Semi

    • nar. "Women’s Studies Curricula and Programme in Higher Education" 1-4 April 1985, The Hague.

  • "Transformations in Ideology on Women and Women’s Labour in the Caribbean with Special Reference to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago" Presented to Association of Caribbean Studies Conference, Port of Spain, July 29-31, 1985.
  • "Teaching and Research on Women and the Family". Presented to ISER-EC/UNESCO Sub-Regional Seminar- Changing Family Patterns and Women’s Roles in the Caribbean, Barbados, November 1986.
  • "Towards an Integrated Analysis of Race, Class and Gender in the Caribbean". Paper presented to XII Congress of the International Sociological Association, Madrid, 9-13 July, 1990.
  • "Women, Gender and Social Movements in Africa". Paper prepared for CODESRIA Meeting on Gender and Society in Africa, Dakar, Senegal, September 1991.
  • "Women and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago." Presented at one in a Seminar series on "The Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean" organised by the Consortium Graduate School in Social Sciences (CGSSS) and Women and Development Studies (Mona) 26 February 1987, Mona, Jamaica. (30 pages).
  • "The Impact of Changing Agricultural Policies on the Female Agricultural Labour Force in Trinidad and Tobago, with particular reference to the Sugar Industry. Presented to FAO Round Table on The Participation and Integration of Women in Agriculture and rural Development in the Caribbean (Project TCP/RLA/6656 (c), St. St. Lucia, 6 -10 July 1987. (with Jasmine Huggins). (52 pages).
  • "What is Feminist Thought?" Presented to UWI/ISS/DGIS Project 2nd Interdisciplinary Seminar - Women, Gender and Development Studies: The Theoretical and Methodological Challenge, UWI, St. Augustine, 7-18 September 1987. (18 pages).
  • "Feminism, Nationalism and the Early Women’s Movement in the English-Speaking Caribbean with special reference to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago"; presented to First International Conference on Women Writers of the English-Speaking Caribbean, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 8-10 April 1988.
  • "Race, Class and Gender: Gender Issues in the Future of the Caribbean". Presented to Caribbean Studies Association Conference panel on Race, Class and Gender Studies, Guadeloupe, 26-30 May 1988.
  • "Caribbean Women and the Struggle of the 1930s: A Pyrrhic Victory". Presented to the UWI Faculty of Social Sciences/ UNESCO Seminar on Slavery, Emancipation and the Shaping of Caribbean Society, 8-10 December 1988.
  • "Women’s Organisations and Movements in the Commonwealth Caribbean in the Context of the World Economic Crisis of the 1980s". Paper prepared for the Research Group - Women’s Movements and Visions for the Future, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), 1988 and presented at DAWN Regional Conference, Barbados.
  • "Theoretical Perspectives on the Study of Women and Development". Presented to the University of Guyana/Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia - Consultation on Curriculum Development in Women’s Studies, Georgetown, Guyana, 2-5 May 1989.
  • "Race, Class and Gender: Gender Issues in the Future of the Caribbean". Presented to the Symposium - Survival and Resistance: Black Women in the Americas, 9-10 June 1989, Schomburg Center, New York.
  • "Sex-Stereotyping in the Media: A Discussion Paper". Presented to "Comment ‘89" Seminar organised by final year students of the UWI Extra Mural Department Studies Unit (now School of Continuing Studies) Programme in Communication Arts, Port of Spain, June 1989. (10 pages).
  • "Towards an Integrated Analysis of Race, Class and Gender in the Caribbean". Presented to the XII Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA) 9-13 July 1990, Madrid. (26 pages).
  • "Social Mobility in Trinidad and Tobago 1960-1980: Preliminary Analysis". Presented to ISER (St. Augustine) Symposium on "Social Stratification in Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, December 1990.
  • "Women’s Studies at the University of the West Indies: A Decade of Feminist Education?" Presented to the series of panels - Women’s Studies Around the Globe, at the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women , San Jose, Costa Rica, 22-26, February 1993.
  • "Douglarization and the Politics of Gender Relations in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago: A Preliminary Analysis" Paper presented to the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, May 1994.
  • "Conceptualizing Difference in Caribbean Feminist Theory". Paper presented to Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Barranquilla, Colombia, May 1997.
  • "Masculinity, Ethnicity and Identity in the Contemporary Socio-Political Context of Trinidad and Tobago". Paper presented to Conference on the African Diaspora Studies on the Eve of the 21st Century, University of California, Berkeley, April-May 1998. [This paper also presented to the conference on Masculinities, Identities and Sexualities, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, March 1999].
  • "Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Conceptual History" paper presented to the Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, September 1998.
  • "Rethinking Common-Law Unions". Paper presented to the Annual Conference, Caribbean Studies Association, Panama City, Panama, May 1999.

    • Interdisciplinary Conference on "Critical Border Crossings: Transnational and Transcultural Methodologies: Trent University, Peterborough.June 9-13, 1999 and June 28-July 4, 1999: Paper presented: "Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Conceptual History (with special reference to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago).

  • "Women and the Process of Democratization in the Anglophone Caribbean". Paper presented to International Conference: "Currents of Change: Globalization, Democratization and Institutional Reform in Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University, October 2001.
  • "The First Mrs Garvey and Others: Feminism and Pan-Africanism in the Early Colonial Caribbean" Paper presented to The Berkshire Conference of Historians of Women, University of Connecticut, June 2001. (Also presented to Women’s Worlds Congress, Makerere University, Kampala, July 2002).
  • "Caribbean Masculinities and Femininities: The Impact of Globalisation on Cultural Representations", Mona Academic Conference, "Gender in the 21st Century: Perspectives, Visions and Possibilities", Kingston, Jamaica, August 29-31, 2003.
  • "Global Networks on Violence against Women" Presented to International Society for sociology of Law Conference on Women, Crime and Globalisation: Feminist Perspectives for the New Millennium, Onati, Spain, September 22-27, 2003.
  • "Reflections on Gender and Democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean: Historical and Contemporary Considerations: SEPHIS/CODESRIA Lecture No. 5, January 2004 (Published in Booklet).
  • "Feminists Doing Masculinity Studies" Presented to the American Sociological Association Centennial Conference, Philadelphia, 13-16, August 2005.
  • "Gender, Nation and the Dilemmas of Citizenship" The Case of the Marriage Acts of Trinidad and Tobago", presented to Global Feminisms Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, Philadelphia, March 2006 (Also presented to CSA Conference, Salvador Bahia, May-June 2007).

    • World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, 23-29, July 2006. Presented in invited symposium "Gender and the Negotiation of Identity and Citizenship in Post-colonial Multi-ethnic Societies" Also co-chaired joint session Research Committee 32 and RC-05 session on "Intersectionality."

  • "Diversity, Difference and Caribbean Feminism: The Challenge of Anti-Racism," Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Conference, Montreal, September 2007.
  • "Looking for a Indian Man" Popular Culture and the Dilemmas of Indo-Trinidadian Masculinity" paper presented to the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, San Andres, May 2008.
  • "Women’s/Gender Studies and the Women’s Movement: Reflections on a Relationship"

    • Women’s Worlds: paper presented to Women’s Worlds: The Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University Complutense, Madrid, 5, July 2008.

  • "Conceptualizing Sex/Gender Diversity: Implications for the Caribbean" paper presented at the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, June 2009.
  • "Marriage have Teeth: Gender and Multiculturalisms in one Postcolonial Caribbean Context" Presentation at invited Presidential session, American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 10, August 2009.
  • "The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Women in the Caribbean: A Gender Analysis of the Responses" Paper presented to the 11th Annual SALISES Conference, 24, March 2010, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port of Spain (with Juliana Foster).
  • "Up Against a Wall: Muslim Women’s Struggle to Reclaim Masjid Space in Trinidad and Tobago", Paper presented to the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Barbados, 26 June 2010.